Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kneerim found out what happened if you took liberties. One night, she recalls, a Harvard friend drove up to the Quad in his brand-new MG. Kneerim and her friends sat around drinking champagne to christen the car, while the dorm's housemother peered through the window at them...
...agents acting on a tip, reportedly from Walker's former wife, were tailing him last Sunday near Poolesville, Md., some 20 miles northwest of Washington, when he stopped his car to toss a bag of trash beside a tree. Mixed with the rubbish were more than 120 classified documents dealing with the movements of Soviet ships in the Mediterranean. When the agents arrested Walker early the next morning, the FBI said, he was carrying a map of clandestine drop points in the Washington area, places where a spy could leave documents to be retrieved by a contact. One of those...
...Barley tries to tell an important Dowayo, "I am cooking some meat," but the pitch is wrong, and his statement comes out as "I am copulating with the blacksmith." Everywhere he goes, the newcomer finds himself enmeshed in African webs of social obligation. Each time he gets into his car, a dozen villagers appear with luggage. All expect to be given a ride, plus money to spend, and most can be counted on to vomit inside the car at some point during the trip. Many Dowayos and their dogs throw up on Barley, and during the rainy season, he cleans...
...soon test-market its Discover credit card, which will compete against American Express and Visa. Sears will try out its orange-and-black piece of plastic this fall in Atlanta. The card will be accepted by Denny's restaurants, Hospital Corp. of America, American Airlines and Budget Rent a Car, as well as Sears stores. Holiday Inns is reportedly expected to sign...
...says that if such a regime could get its hands on enough plutonium, it would require only a few thousand dollars to build a device with a yield of ten kilotons, three kilotons less than that of the bomb that leveled Hiroshima, that could fit into a medium-size car. "I'd give them a pretty good chance, say, one in three, of building one that would work the first time," he says...