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Word: knowingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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...know," the other says, looking tired, scanning the front page of yesterday's Globe. Kevin White wants pay raise. Marian Christy writes the inside story of public relations. Governor offs Child Services. Heroin dealer offs four cops...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Captive Audience | 1/18/1980 | See Source »

...OTHER MAN is picking at the ice. "I kind of wonder what the Russians are thinking...what do the Russian people think? They probably don't know this is all happening, they probably believe they're trying to help Afghanistan. It's scary. They probably don't know anything at all. They didn't even know about Watergate until a year later...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Captive Audience | 1/18/1980 | See Source »

...girl sitting next to me is getting relatively hysterical. The machine has just "gone down" --a euphemism like saying Grandpa has "passed away." But she doesn't see it this way. "The fucking machine, if it wasn't already dead, I'd kill it." Yes, yes, I know what she means but my head is down on the keyboard waiting for the half-hearted cheer and agitated, pathetic energy that greets The Machine's rebirth. A terminal watcher walks by and says 'I think we have a casualty," and I wonder he is referring to me or the terminal, whose...

Author: By Solange R. Wetlaufer, | Title: Terminal Illness | 1/16/1980 | See Source »

January 11: I have run my program. It definitely doesn't work. I show the contorted output to my friends. They laugh. I am not laughing. I am calling my section man again. What can I tell him? I just don't know what to do. So I say "I honestly don't know what to do to fix this thing." He is flustered for a second before having an epiphany and figuring out how to explain...

Author: By Solange R. Wetlaufer, | Title: Terminal Illness | 1/16/1980 | See Source »

...very late at night so I ask the guy sitting next to me what it all means and he says "What? I don't know. I do know actually, but it's not this...

Author: By Solange R. Wetlaufer, | Title: Terminal Illness | 1/16/1980 | See Source »

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