Word: broads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hadn't seen Chris for months. He's twenty-seven or so, a professional cook, with broad shoulders, a mustache, and a good eye for pool. Every Christmas for the last few years, we meet and play at Rotten Rodney's on Lake Street in Madison, Wisconsin. This year my father joined us and we played cutthroat for a couple hours. My dad went to Harvard, before becoming dean of a string of law schools, Chris paid his own way through school, after doing time on the oil rigs in Montana, and I'm a smart-ass undergraduate...
First word of the arrest was broad-cast shortly after 10 p.m. by television station WRC, which said the mayor attempted to buy cocaine on the seventh floor...
Although Harvard's interests on the state level are broad, they tend to concentrate on the areas of state scholarship funds, environmental regulation, real estate and academic research, according to Kevin Casey, the University's director of state relations...
WHAT is certain is that the "middle class"--the broad spectrum of Americans for whom culture, outlook and life-opportunities are similar--is being bifurcated. The "two-tiered society" does not just describe two income brackets, but two ways of life and two ways of looking at life in America...
...Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler (1985). The 1980s finally gave Tyler the broad readership her talents deserve. Her tenth novel is a poignant portrait of a travel writer who caters to people who hate to travel. Behind this whimsical premise lies a tragedy (the death of a child) that is never played for easy irony or pathos...