Word: cards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second floor of the garage a flustered old man complains that his station wagon has been broken into. When did he park it there, the police officer asks. What are you missing? The questions continue. The old man reaches into his glove compartment--"My wife's Gulf credit card," he answers...
Each call the police respond to produces an incident card for the computer and a report from the responsible officer. The supervisor for the evening, known as the watch commander, returns to Grays Hall throughout the shift to look over the reports and check for accuracy and the possible ommission of vital facts. He signs the incident cards. The chief will receive the reports the following day, as will the heads of the sub-units in the department...
...Colts raised their record to 4-6 on the year but only miracles could grant them a wild-card playoff spot as the Dolphins, the team with the best second place record in the American Conference, stand 7-3, three full games ahead...
...Senate must approve cancellation of the treaty, but they say they have every intention of consulting with Congress before they make any major steps on China. And they do want to press ahead. Presidential National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski is eager to play what he has called the "China card" in the ongoing poker game of U.S. -Soviet relations (Moscow has already roared in protest against both the term and the concept). But Brzezinski and other policymakers realize that whenever they play the card, they are going to have trouble with conservative critics on Capitol Hill. Therefore they are moving...
...View, All the President's Men), a major cinematic stylist who works equally well with actors and ideas. Cinematographer Gordon Willis (The Godfather, Interiors), though overly enraptured with the poetic uses of shadows, is one of the top craftsmen in American movies. There's only one wild card in this impressive pack: first-time Screenwriter Dennis Lynton Clark. His script is dry, but that does not absolve his colleagues from the responsibility of juicing...