Word: cinders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staff cafeteria is immaculate, lit with fluorescence and perked up by leaf-green supergraphics. Four dwarfs and a brown nylon-shag bear stand at the counter, ordering chipped beef. Their human faces, pinheads emerging from their neck-holes, look tiny, naked and grumpy. Across a wide cinder-block corridor whose ceiling is wreathed like a battleship's with gas pipes and power mains, more ducks and mice are disappearing into the mask room. REMOVE YOUR HEAD AND PLACE ON TABLE AFTER ENTERING, a notice Commands; the racks are full of familiar visages, the icons of one's childhood...
...weekend golfer faces horrendous frustrations: long queues at public courses; the expense of private clubs; capricious weather that can rain him out or sun him to a cinder before the ninth hole. One way to beat all these hazards is to forget that the Scots intended golf to be an outdoor game. Then the player can use one of the dozens of indoor ranges that employ computers and color slides to give customers the illusion that they are playing real golf on a famous course...
Nonetheless, they expect the last mission to be the most scientifically productive. In Scientist-Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, they will finally have the services of a professional geologist on the moon. The Taurus-Littrow landing site contains what may be small, volcanically created cinder cones; they seem to be miniature versions of earthly features like Honolulu's Diamond Head. The cones may well be remnants of what NASA Geochemist Robin Brett calls "some of the last belches of lunar activity before the moon turned off." Finally, Apollo 17 planners have scheduled a program of experiments and observation far more sophisticated...
Aside from the double painting of the ice, recent renovations of Watson Rink include the addition of a new scoreboard and the refinishing of its walls. "It's not that cold, cinder-block place it was." Billy Cleary, hockey team coach, said yesterday...
...business of Boston area students. It first drew youthful attention in 1967 by setting up a branch in Harvard Square that was the absolute opposite of the banking establishment's marble mausoleums: a crowded trailer in the forecourt of a garage. Recently, the branch moved into the cinder-block garage, which was remodeled and painted a psychedelic red, white and blue on the outside and yellow, lime and white inside. The bank's interest in students goes deeper than a fresh coat of paint. Since 1968 it has been offering what is probably the most comprehensive student loan...