Word: brush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Egasti and company are especially wary of Princeton's lightning quick lair of attackmen. All-American Dave Huebeck, Bob Thomas, and George Brush--all natives of lax-happy Baltimore--combined for 98 points last year, and all have returned this season...
...Orbost, where I lived, has a population of 6000. It is the size of the state of Massachusetts. Three thousand people live in the market town of Orbost, the other 3000 clustered on tiny sawmill settlements and scattered on a few small farms carved out of the dense brush...
...increased production. Smaller oil companies and wildcatters are also joining the battle against the windfall profits tax, but plan to do their own lobbying. Explains Jack Allen, president of the 5,000-member- Independent Petroleum Association of America: "We don't want to be tarred with the same brush as the oil majors...
Although it was never finished, it became the most familiar portrait in America. An engraving of it stares serenely from every current $1 bill.* The artist, besieged by requests for his work, churned out at least 70 replicas in his lifetime; countless copiers followed in his brush strokes. The painting is, of course, George Washington by Gilbert Stuart, one of only three Washington portraits painted from life by colonial America's gifted and prolific artist...
...hotels have an occupancy rate of well over 90%, a phenomenon that actually distresses the hoteliers because they hardly have time to change the sheets between check-out and checkin. Not at all unhappy are the property developers who are dotting condominiums around the hotels on what was useless brush and mesquite land a few years ago. If Maui in the past century was ravaged by diseases brought in by outsiders, the island today is in the throes of a more benign importation. It could be called condo fever. Symptoms:-More than 1,000 people gathered at Kapalua last July...