Word: bacon
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Carla Amble and Sarah Linsley switched places pn the 880-yd. and mile runs and both came up with blue ribbons. Amble brought home the bacon in the mile in 5.29, while Linsley won the half-mile...
...much-beleaguered tax-cutting plans survived perhaps their toughest test last week in the Senate Finance Committee and emerged reasonably intact. They were saved not by the President but by Committee Chairman Russell Long of Louisiana, who drew on all his parliamentary skill. Fresh from a midweek lunch of bacon-and-tomato sandwiches with Carter at the White House, Long trotted Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Charles Schultze before the committee for an unusual second appearance to argue for the Administration's $50 tax rebate. In the end, the committee voted to keep the rebate, restore the increase...
...technologic euphoria which began about 1600 with Francis Bacon and was continued by the 18th century philosophers of the enlightenment achieved its most extreme expression among the 20th century futurologists, who took it for granted that the year 2000 would see the dawn of a technologic Utopia...
Henry Brock is an English bachelor and a railway man with a precise idea of heaven: "The right sort of train to London ... a morning train, with a good breakfast car, lots of coffee and toast and bacon and eggs and marmalade, the newspaper, and two or three hours of pleasantly changing views through the window." Alas, such bliss is denied him. On holiday in Italy, Brock and his girl friend are drowned when their cruise ship sinks. Because of his record of unrepented fornications, he is sentenced to the Second Circle of Hell -Dante's Circle...
...rest of coach Dave Fish's supporting cast handled their opponents with ease. Ned Bacon won, 3-0, at four, George Bell and John Stubbs swept their opponents at seven and eight, and Bob Blake triumphed at number nine...