Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Air Force can barely find enough planes to accommodate all the members of Congress heading for distant parts of the world during the Easter recess. House Speaker Tip O'Neill is leading one group to Ireland; House Whip John Brademas is taking another to the Soviet Union. Members of the House Narcotics Committee are on their way to sunny Colombia. So many Congressmen are traveling to China that a quorum call might just succeed in Peking. The Easter recess, in fact, is turning out to be considerably more lively than the session, which so far has set a record...
Peter Rowan and the Free Mexican Air Force--Swifts...
...starting gun fires at noon, cheers break the tension-filled air, and a slow, thick mass of human lava flows down the Hopkinton road towards Boston. For the next several hours all that matters is your body, the distance and the time...
...nothing left to be done; his wistful reminiscences in "The New Music" or his older story. "At the Tolstoy Museum," bears this out. Barthelme yearns for a simpler day, when authors wrote epics instead of this artsy noodling. As he writes in "The Crisis," "Three rebellions ago, the air was fresher." One sometimes wonders why these people who think there is nothing left to write end up killing so many trees. But Barthelme cares about art; perhaps more than any other contemporary figure, he is trying. I am left with this mental picture: Barthelme, sitting in the prow...
...varied offerings of righthander Denny Works. Mike Stenhouse led off the inning with a drive to deep center that on any normal baseball day would have cleared the snow fence in center but was only a long out. "I thought that one was out for sure," Nahigian said. "The air was just dead out there and nothing carries...