Word: arrowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history's happiest invention humming from coast to coast. He watches over 265 million miles of wire, waging war against storm, disaster and pesky animals that chew up or nest in his equipment. He hoists his lines over mountains with helicopters, shoots them across canyons with bow and arrow, strings them through dark conduits far beneath great cities. To every home and office, he gains ready entrance, exuding courtesy and helpfulness...
Fallen Archery. In Nottingham. England, the sheriff announced that an all-out search was being conducted for thieves who stole the arrow and part of a longbow from a statue of Robin Hood outside Nottingham Castle...
Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 went out for the CRIMSON in 1900, in the days when "The task was heavy, the drain on the candidate's thought and time exhausting. The candidates was everywhere; he was 'the arrow that flieth by day, and pestilence that walketh in darkness,'" according to W. R. Bowie, the managing editor at the time. F.D.R.'s competition opened in October, and he was finally elected in June after reporting that his uncle, Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt, would lecture in Lowell's Gov. 1 course...
...Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, by Nikos Kazantzakis. An epic arrow-flight of adventure, passion and soul-searching from the literary bow of Greece's late, famed man of letters...
DEFENSE: In view of Ottawa's decision to downgrade the Avro CF-105 Arrow jet fighter in favor of U.S. missiles, Canadian industry should have "ample opportunity" to compete for U.S. defense subcontracts, now sharply limited by the "Buy American...