Word: archings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crouse's book is not a war story and not all his cameos show delirious journalists. The book is wry and anecdotal, and Crouse knows how to be arch. While his writing is slick, sophisticated, and catchy, he retains a gravity in due respect to the political importance of the press. Entertaining as the style is, however, he's presenting a serious critique. What emerges most strongly are the hazards of pack journalism. The reporters have achieved a peculiar fraternity of chummy fellow travellers who, at a moment's notice, will forsake each other for a scoop...
Like its characters, Albee's script -essentially the text of his 1966 play -is pompous, windy, arch; it is a series of tableaux shaped out of crushed...
Even without number three man Arch Gwathmey, number six man Bill Kaplan and number seven man Peter Havens, the Crimson squash team shut out yet another opponent this season. The raquetmen pummeled Army Saturday, 9-0, at West Point...
...find the flea's lous source of energy, the researchers turned to high-speed motion picture photography (3,500 frames per second) and chemical analysis. They soon determined that it was hidden in a region filed the pleural arch near the base of the flea's hind legs. In flying insects, the pleural arch is the site of the wing-hinge ligaments, the place where the wings are attached to the exoskeleton, hard outer covering. In fleas, as well as in dragonflies, locusts and certain other insects, the arch serves another purpose: as a repository for an extraordinary...
...assertive, and he had an incredible capacity to discuss a problem thoroughly and succinctly without missing any details. As we sat in exquisitely upholstered lounge chairs at the PRG's Information Office on the second floor of an old mansion in the posh section of Paris near the Arch of Triumph and the Eiffel Tower, I scarcely realized that I was talking to the representative of a government which had fought a long, dirty guerilla war in the jungles of Vietnam...