Word: comely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Does the combination of technical and economic problems mean that the electric passenger car will never come to be? Manufacturers do not seem to be discouraged. They are trying to develop better batteries while producing more and more electric golf carts, lift trucks, minibuses, industrial sweepers and postal delivery vans...
...pipedream. "I didn't put out any of those stories." He "didn't get a penny" from the documentary movie about him, Don't Look Back. His best songs have been written in motel rooms and cars. "I try to write the song when it comes . . . And when they don't come...
...sell quite a few records . . . and I was doing interviews before and after concerts, and reporters would say things like 'What else do you write?' And I would say, 'Well, I don't write much of anything else.' And they would say, 'Oh, come on. You must write other things. Tell us something else. Do you write books?' And I'd say, 'Sure, I write books.' After the publishers saw that I wrote books, they began to send me contracts . . . Doubleday, Macmillan . . . we took the biggest one and then owed...
...years since, increasing numbers of hunters have come to the same conclusion. To give their prey more of a chance and themselves more of a challenge, many have followed Bear's example and reverted to the bow and arrow. By necessity, they have also returned to nature. "The bow hunter is accurate at only 30 yards or less," explains Bear. "Getting that close to a wild animal is like trying to sneak into Fort Knox. And that's the fun of it. It's not the kill; that's always anticlimactic. It's the tracking...
...saved Royal from the fruit-picking odyssey. He joined the U.S. Army Air Force in 1943 and played for the Third Air Force at Tampa, Fla. After the war, Oklahoma Coach Jim Tatum had little trouble persuading the slight (5 ft. 11 in., 158 lbs.) quarterback to come home and try his hand at college ball. In 1947, Royal's sophomore year, Tatum was replaced by a youngster named Bud Wilkinson. Under Wilkinson's guidance Royal was named All-America quarterback in 1949. But the pro scouts considered him small, and he drifted into coaching. He held seven...