Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chain is going on to new triumphs: adding an average of one new outlet every day to its 2,500 in the U.S., and hanging on every one a sign reading OVER 12 BILLION SOLD to commemorate an event that occurred during August. Executives at world headquarters in Oak Brook, Ill., a Chicago suburb, have not bothered to investigate who ate the 12 billionth hamburger, when or in which restaurant, because they know that its consumption constituted only an ephemeral milestone. In four months or less, given the current intensity of the nation's hamburger hunger, those signs will...
Luxury campsites! The very phrase is a non sequitur. As any Boy Scout knows, a campsite is a clearing in the woods where the greatest luxury is a running brook. The basic urge of the true camper is to escape from chlorine, color TV and asphalt. The climb up Mount Horrid is an excellent baptism. In six-tenths of a mile, the trail rises sharply 600 ft. We were out of breath halfway up, and I thought my heart was about to pound out of my chest. At 2,800 ft., the trail levels off on a rocky perch called...
...quickly establish a relationship with the woods. All your senses are engaged. You stop to examine wildflowers and taste fresh cold water from a fast brook. You hear the forest's noises-birds, rain hitting the leaves, a squirrel or porcupine scurrying out of your path...
...Cambridge City Council last night recorded its opposition to the proposed power transmission station at Alewife Brook Parkway, citing community hostility towards the project...
...attempted suicide in Sophocles' seven plays are indeed reported rather than witnessed. Yet blood, Jan Kott insists, still happens to be what Greek tragedy is about. Kott, one of postwar Poland's most distinguished critics, now teaches at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He sights at Greek tragedy, however, along the smoking chimneys of Auschwitz. As he did with his harshly brilliant Shakespeare Our Contemporary, Kott reads his Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides for audiences who "have come to know from their own experience about corpses thrown into a rubbish heap...