Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moyers, public television's impresario, who was raised in Marshall, Texas. He says that solitude, knowing friends and enemies intimately, having a more hospitable environment-all provide a gentle entry into the harsh world. "People in towns get a better sense of themselves, their places. The families stay closer, the landmarks last longer...
...some individual bishops have been less than liberal in situations closer to home. The archdioceses of Philadelphia and Los Angeles and the diocese of Gary, Ind., are all currently engaged in efforts to stop the unionization of Catholic-school teachers. Boston's Humberto Cardinal Medeiros railed against the racism in South Boston in an interview three weeks ago, then meekly apologized to the South Bostonians the next week...
...nature. In the country side, his irregular shapes tend to echo the asymmetries of lakes, rocks, plants. Even in cities, he created buildings that separated people from street traffic, often by the use of internal gardens. He preferred to work in brick and wood, because those natural materials were closer to "the human experience...
Flesh sees America closer up, as a traveling businessman constantly criss crossing the country and sampling its incredibly juxtaposed variety. An on-the-road hero, he is a type basic not only to the American economy but to its literature as well. His story moves like his life, from one picaresque adventure to another...
After ten minutes, the lead was up to 7-1, but Steve O'Neil scored for the visitors to cut the lead to five. In the next six minutes, however, the Crimson stickmen made sure that Dartmouth would get no closer...