Word: cartful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stepped into the cart for the winding drive to the first hole (a short but tricky par-four, with water on the right), a few of his cohorts wished him well in muted voices. Since he had squandered his lead as an 18-year-old, he had been stamped as bad luck, and most young "rabbits," as they were called, avoided him. He had come close a few times after that initial effort but had choked in the clutch. He hated them in every detail, from pearl-white smiles, to their clone-like personalities. "Thank y'all. 'Preciate it," they...
...street was ice and hardly wide enough for/two of them at a time, or for a cart,/They felt showy in their bright nylon. /A woman with a bowl looked at them from her door. /Chickens. A covered water trough. She told me/more about the street and then remembered,/what she wasy saying, she said, was that there were/farmers out working in the snow...
...American system that such an ignominious association could operate. The Moonies feed on capitalism and prey on its confused population. It is no act of rebellion to join, or be corrupted into joining, the Unification Church. Rev. Moon, the Supreme Autocrat, will exploit you to the fullest and cart off his rewards. Mr. Selover, who is himself a Moonie, is not justified in discussing the cult as a religious phenomenon; the Unification Church is an economic entity that cynically mirrors the tragedy of American life. Adam Steinhouse...
...authorities. Then, donning a bulletproof vest, he goes to lunch with the mysterious professor at the Princeton Club, ostensibly to consummate the deal. At the conclusion of the sale, undercover agents arrest Greek-born John Papanastassiou, 34, a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University. At his Riverside Drive apartment, police cart off 95 more rare books and manuscripts, while Papanastassiou, in jail, insists that "the crux of the matter lies elsewhere." Most of the 267 missing books are still at large...
Initially geared to produce 20,000 sandwiches daily, the Lodi, N.J., Chipwich factory has scheduled an increase in output to 200,000 on Oct. 1, and the company is preparing supermarket and cart distribution in Sunbelt states. "It's been one of those American dreams," says Chipwich's creator Richard LaMotta...