Word: cars
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Transportation. But since new plates were issued last month, 130 irate motorists in Scott County have returned the plates because they bore the prefix GAY. One woman wrote: "I cannot be a single teacher and sport those plates." A traveling salesman complained that while he was in Chicago, his car doors were kicked in because of the plates...
...enough to have an impact. But aside from the fact that one never sees the wave hit Sydney, the reasons given for its appearance aren't too terribly plausible. There is a magnificent scene which sets up the wave, the highpoint of the film: Chamberlain is in his car and daydreams that the wave has hit and as he looks outside he sees well-dressed pedestrians floating beneath the blue-gray water, groceries floating slowly upwards. But this scene occurs three-quarters of the way through the movie, and it is all downhill form there. The vague moral dilemma...
...Klotz. 42. UCLA--Walton, Lee, Curtis, Wilkes, Farmer; Memphis State--Finch, Kenon, Robinson, Buford, Laurie. 43. On the front was a circle with "The City" and the Golden Gate Bridge encircling the player's number. On the back, the number was emblazoned inside of a cable car. 44. Throw up. 45. Cyril Baptiste. 46. Jackie Meehan. 47. Jackie Twyman. 48. The Big O. 49. 3 [football, hoop and track...
Throughout, Voznesensky's work is transfigured by metaphors. A man clothes himself in a suit, a car, a garage, a nation, a planet, a cosmos-and then realizes that he has forgotten his watch. Timeless, he has lost his place in history. A girl's black bell-bottomed trousers "flare out as shadow would flare out/ If the source of light/ Were centered in her belly." The poet moves in his leather jacket, "a cow's hide stuffed with soul." In "War" he compresses the century's anguish to four barbed-wire lines...
...class, freshman sensation Paul Wiederman was his usual impressive self and continued to delight the crowd, posting victories in all his matches. Wiederman pinned Coast Guard's Matt Thomas and downed his MIT adversary, 10-2. He won over his Lowell opponent, who had been shaken up in a car accident earlier, by forfeit...