Word: frequented
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Thatcher, who from the very start refused to bow to the prisoners' demands, principally that they be treated as special-category political prisoners rather than as ordinary convicts. When the seven first refused food, on Oct. 27, they spoke of fasting "until death." Their privations and the frequent reports of their worsening health turned them into near martyrs and quickly raised sectarian tensions throughout the troubled North. Catholics demanded at least a compromise, while Protestants insisted that there be "no surrender." Thatcher held firm...
...kill) are all defined; the editors do, however, miss a couple, such as "dive," as in a bad or dangerous restaurant or bar, and "hyper." Occasional usage notes do slip into an unpleasant pedantic style: "Careful writers use dived rather than dove in the past tense." But even less frequent notes on the origin or phrases turn up interesting information; the term "poobah," for example, a person who holds many offices at once, comes from a character in Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado...
...Willie Nelson has a coveted signed edition. Straight through the heartland of America, truck drivers pass up the centerfold magazines at diesel stops to buy a copy of his latest paperback; thousands of folks from Santa Fe, N. Mex., to Savannah, Ga., line up for his autograph on his frequent tours...
...success, he says, came because "I'm not a frustrated doctor, not a frustrated coach, and not a frustrated player." He makes frequent reference to the doctors who advise him on his treatments, usually passing much of the credit their...
...perpetuates negative female stereotypes. Despite Schubert's assurance that "there is a conscious effort to develop cases where women are not excluded," the vast majority of them still either ignore female participation completely or present women in roles of limited authority. Women students see an unquestionable need for more frequent references to top-level women so "that when you see the word manager you don't automatically think of the pronoun...