Word: chalke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, Harvard expected the Big Red fail-back to be rarin' to go for Saturday's game, since it was an important Ivy contest for both teams. And yet, as kick-off time approached, word traveled quickly that Harmon had not even made the trip to Cambridge Chalk one up for the Crimson...
...hosts surely needed the cheering up. America's 2.4 million farmers are struggling to survive the worst slump since the Depression, caught in a vise of rising costs and falling prices. Though they are expected to chalk up near record crops of wheat (73.8 million metric tons) and corn (208 million metric tons) this year, the silo-busting harvests will only push low prices even lower. Since 1975, as farm expenses have nearly doubled (from $75.9 billion to $141.5 billion), net farm income has fallen. Profits, which declined from $32.7 billion in 1979 to $22.9 billion last year...
Back in West Beirut by sundown, at the shelled stadium. The topmost stands are crumbled like stale cake. The poles, where pennants flew, are down or bent. Great fissures mark the walls. The clock and Scoreboard are stopped cold. Gray stones are piled like giant's chalk, where steps were, where thousands upon thousands roared for the winners. A dog scavenges in the shadows. More shots from somewhere. Near by, a bomb crater filled with water serves the people as a swimming hole...
...much Hal's father as is King Henry); he is quick to tousle the youth's hair or put his arm around Hal's shoulders And he makes "If to be old and merry be a sin" as touching as Shylock's "Hath not a Jew eyes" Chalk up another triumph for the doting Dotrice...
...specific gravity of Irene Worth's mode of delivery banishes frivolity and inspires conviction, as does the work of Constance Cummings and Donal Donnelly. Mrs. St. Maugham may not have been named that for nothing since The Chalk Garden measures human character with Maugham's skeptic...