Word: center
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ectomorphic Smiley, The Honourable Schoolboy resists shrinkage. Its events are febrile, its local color relentless and sometimes overlong. This often obscures suspense and the Le Carré trademark: a fine irony that smashes beautiful political theories with hard facts. That irony is apparent in the very word Circus (see box), center of British intelligence. Once a roiling three-ring operation, the place now resembles a shabby, peeling carnival depleted of funds and dignity...
...Sheet & Tube] plant leaves, the whole valley will die," says one Campbell Works employee. "It will kill our business," adds Jim Carlucci, owner of Frank's Party Shop in a Struthers shopping center. In Campbell and Struthers, dismal little taverns near the mill gates were filled with workers morosely drinking up one last time. Most were quiet, but in Shirley's Bar in Struthers, eight angry steelworkers yelled, "We want jobs, not jackets!" They had received coupons entitling them to free jackets for helping set production records on open-hearth furnaces a day before they got their notices...
...comrade-against-arms and an unsuccessful senatorial candidate in last year's election, she is promoting what they call "economic democracy," a vague term that seems to mean economic decentralization. On a 120-acre ranch just north of Santa Barbara, she and Hayden have set up a center for the 30 California chapters of their movement. When they are not busy with politics or movies, the Haydens live simply in a $40,000 house in Santa Monica with their son Troy, 4, and Vanessa Vadim, 10, her daughter by French Director Roger Vadim...
...ongoing problems weren't enough. All-Ivy defensive tackle Charlie Kaye will miss the Colgate game with an injury, and center Joe Pellegrini is questionable...
...Harvard researchers are Donald T. Francis, research fellow in Pediatrics, and Myron E. Essex, associate professor of Virology. The third scientist involved in the study is W.D. Hardy, Jr. who works with the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City...