Word: brush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...night shrouded the Southern California coast. There was no sound but the rush of the surf as 80 Camp Pendleton Marines, their faces blackened, huddled in the brush in night ambush position. They kept their weapons at the ready in preparation for a night assault by "aggressors"-fellow Marines engaged in landing exercises...
...only took six strokes for Harvard to brush aside any wild ideas that Princeton really was going to make a serious challenge for the Goldthwait...
...They found that the children caught on quickly. Now Lincoln has a newspaper called the Nader News, which features sulfurous exposés like the tale about the school store, where Mrs. Betty Davis tried to beat Susan Davidson out of a penny on her purchase of a paste brush. (Susan...
...United Methodist Church is a case of a great American success story that is going bad. Once a movement that leaped like brush fire along the 19th century frontier, the U.M.C. has suffered a net loss of 518,000 members in the past four years-the biggest of any church in U.S. history. Over a longer time span Sunday school attendance has slid by onefourth, the once-prized foreign missionary force by one-fifth. A recent survey by U.M.C. program planners found that grass-roots Methodists bitterly distrust church officials...
Correspondents James Willwerth and Sandy Smith reported from the New York firing line, and from their own experience as thug watchers. Willwerth's first brush with the Mob dates back to 1969, when an anonymous phone call took him from Manhattan to Tucson, Ariz., and a three-hour interview with a confidant of Family Man, Joe Bonanno. His article appeared with our cover story on the Mafia (TIME, Aug. 22, 1969). Last summer Willwerth reported on the shooting of Joe Colombo...