Word: deckers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...wrong she was, especially in her own case. Granted, she had a point about the stylistic changes since Horace Walpole or, later, those Victorian worthies enshrined in three-decker "Lives and Letters." Vanished are the leisurely epistles addressed to a quasi-public circle of acquaintances (and, between the lines, to posterity); the 20th century goes elsewhere for its literary entertainment and journalism. In all of Woolf's 3,710 collected letters-here rounded off in the last of six stout volumes that have been coming out since 1975-she scarcely ever troubles to paint a scene or describe great...
Toward the end, though, things became a bit nerve-racking as the Army offense under second-string quarterback T.D. Decker put together a pair of late drives. As they did in last week's one-point cliffhanger with Holy Cross, the gridders clamped down and staved off the final campaign to preserve the triumph...
Sprawling super hardware stores and home-improvement centers are springing up to meet the demand. W.R. Grace's home-centers division has grown to 240 outlets since it was started four years ago. Toolmakers are prospering. Black & Decker's U.S. profits rose...
...national collegiate indoor record. Beckford's blistering pace knocked more than 16 seconds off the old Eastern record and more than 12 seconds off the Harvard facility record. Beckford now stands as the fourth fastest indoor miler in the world behind American stars Mary Decker and Francie Larrieu and Russian racer Zmira Zatseva...
...standard garb of Cuba's own "young pioneers." The students are roused at 6 a.m., take breakfast (typically ham, bread and milk) in carefully ordered sittings at the school's mess hall. They are held responsible for the neatness of their dorms, which are crowded with double-decker bunks; each student has shelves by his bed to store books and clothing...