Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Second only to drought as a major worry, both on and off the farms, is the economy. Hamilton Cloud. 24. a black Yale graduate who earns less than $12,000 a year as a radio producer in Los Angeles, complained that he cannot afford to get married because of inflation. Said he: "I'm still getting used to the idea that things will never be cheaper than they are now." Other people in the West voice the almost universal American litany of worries: street crime, poverty and unemployment...
...sidelines, a volatile one. He has patched up a 1976 team weakened by injuries, switching to a three linemen-four linebackers defense to compensate, and ably led his troops through an emotionally trying barrage of accusations: Oakland spent much of the fall under a cloud of charges of dirty play. It began in the season's opening game, when Safetyman George Atkinson decked Pittsburgh Receiver Lynn Swann, leaving Swann with a concussion. Steeler Coach Chuck Noll charged Atkinson with foul play, speaking darkly of a "criminal element in the N.F.L." Hoping to cool things off, Commissioner Pete Rozelle fined Atkinson...
...nothing particular to interest me on shortbread, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery partiality of the worriment." Strip Flipper. OuLiPo's only American, Harry Mathews, has contributed "perverbs"-combined proverbs permuted until the mind is dizzied and the meaning transmogrified: "Every cloud is another man's poison"; "The road to Hell is paved with rolling stones." Poet Jacques Bens writes "irrational sonnets" based on the value of pi carried to the fourth decimal place: 3.1415. The 14 lines are divided into groups containing three, one, four, one and five lines-in that...
After following Carter for 16 months, TIME Correspondent Cloud is still fascinated by his complexities: "My own view is that he will either be one of the greatest Presidents of the modern era, or that he will be a complete failure. I see no middle ground for him, no mediocrity. He often described his vision of America as a 'beautiful mosaic' of almost infinite colors and facets. Presidents don't normally talk that way. They don't normally cry in front of reporters. They don't normally blast some political opponent one day and apologize publicly the next. Presidents...
Seated in the comfortable parlor of his home in Plains, President-elect Jimmy Carter was interviewed last week by TIME Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart, Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey and Correspondents Stanley Cloud and Bonnie Angela. Speaking at length of his plans for the presidency and his progress thus far, Carter disclosed that...