Word: caps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impossibly difficult to isolate just one. For example, climatologists do not yet know the exact role of atmospheric dust. Dust can cool the earth by screening out warming sunlight, as has been noted after major volcanic eruptions like that of Krakatoa in 1883, yet also act as an atmospheric cap keeping in heat. Says Scripps' Charles Keeling: "Dust impedes radiation in both directions. We do not know if the net effect is heating or cooling." No less puzzling is the possible effect on world temperature of changes in the atmosphere's ozone layer...
...braided cap, pausing to relight his corncob from time to time, he once more made a conspicuous target. A Nambu opened up. He didn't even duck...
...Holmes' record, Rose was hitless when he came to bat in the seventh in New York. "Let's go, Pete!" chanted the Mets crowd. Rose promptly singled to left, took a big turn at first, then allowed himself an elated clap of his hands before tipping his cap to the fans. They stood and cheered for three minutes. Rose's first thought after getting his hit? "I wanted to be sure I had a chance at second in case the ball took a bad hop. We're in a pennant race, you know...
...classmates converged on the diesel-powered stern-wheeler Liberty Belle for the cruise that was to cap their 30th reunion, a four-hour voyage up the river into the darkness and back, a roast beef dinner and dancing to a three-piece band. It was a stirry night of boozy merriment, insistent camaraderie, an interlude of urgent small talk and the irresistible pursuit of ghosts...
...worst, free jazz borders on bedlam. At its best-as in the Newport concerts of Taylor and Coleman-the music has internal rhythms and themes that give it direction. For 50 minutes, Taylor-hallmark shades and knit cap in place-and his sidemen wrapped Carnegie Hall in a solid sheet of sound, each member of the group swapping and developing ideas from the others. A frenzied, virtuoso performer, Taylor roiled tempests on the bass of the piano, then modulated into short phrases and lyrical passages that contained echoes of Bartók and Debussy...