Word: baton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exactly journalism, not exactly meteorology, not exactly soothsaying, not exactly show business, but parts of all four. TV weathercasters have been much mocked for their polyester jocularity, for what seem bizarrely pseudo-scientific discourses to explain that it will be cool and windy tomorrow. It is, critics say, the baton twirling of TV news...
...Although the elements change as swiftly as the shapes of clouds, the weathercaster's three-to-four-minute performance is, in its discipline, as rigid as a sonnet or a haiku. The ritual be gins with the anchorman passing the baton with an oafishly merry transition line like: "Well, buddy, you sure did it to us yesterday, didn't you?" The weatherman casts his eyes downward with a chastened chuckle, accepting responsibility and thereby obscurely associating himself with nature's Higher Authorities...
Neville Marriner takes a symphonic baton between his teeth...
Their world is the sprawling 4,100-inmate Louisiana state prison complex in Angola, 35 miles northwest of Baton Rouge. Their voice is the Angolite, the most probing and literate inmate publication in the U.S. Last week Rideau, 38, and Sinclair, 35, both convicted murderers serving life terms, won a prestigious George Polk Award for special-interest reporting. One article cited was Rideau's chilling account of homosexual rape and subjugation behind bars. Another story submitted to the Polk judges was an investigative report by Sinclair raising the possibility of misfeasance in the murder of a prisoner five years...
...right. Clabby started the race with a split of 2:15.6, and a handoff to Rogers 30 yards ahead of her closest competitor. Rogers widened the gap to 40 yards, handing the baton to Linsley with a 2:20.7 split. Linsley sped through her 800-meter leg in 2:19.0 to hand off to Beckford. The freshman star then ran the anchor leg in 2:09.1 to win the race in 9:04.4, more than ten seconds ahead...