Word: crunchingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...additional students should not cause a housing crunch, Susan W. Lewis, assistant dean of freshmen, said yesterday. Renovations to Hurlbut Hall have added room for 16 additional students, she said. Forty-nine freshmen will live off-campus, she added...
...direction and editing are smooth and competent, and the football scenes, with their low angle shots of huge players against the unrelieved blackness of the sky--take on a surrealistic quality that is shockingly enhanced by the crunch of bone and startling flashes of violence. The only element ignored by director Ted Kotcheff is the fans, who are never even glimpsed. Maybe it's just as well--you can only take so much of that decadent-Romans-drooling-over-the-slaves-being-eaten-by-lions stuff. But you can't help but feel that a whole dimension of professional sports...
Westerners resent the bureaucratic decision to cut Amtrak service, something far more vital to Butte and Cheyenne than to Nashville or Columbus, and the general disregard of the gas crunch until it hit the East. Montana's Democratic Governor Thomas Judge, among other Western Governors, put out an urgent plea to the Department of Energy for help in securing diesel fuel for crop harvesting Said Judge: "I got absolutely nowhere I had to go out myself and buy 75,000 barrels from New York...
...gasoline crunch that frightens me but rather the lack of dignity and strength that Americans have been displaying as we face the problem...
...industries have been so immediately and painfully dented by the oil crunch as U.S. automaking. Mainly because of scarce gas and exploding prices, car sales have skidded from an annual rate of about 12 million units in March to roughly 10 million today, a drop of 26% from last year's record mid-June pace. A main contributor to the slump is buyers' snubbing of luxury and even standard models, while the demand for fuel-thrifty small cars is far outstripping Detroit's ability to produce them. Buyers are increasingly turning to Toyotas, Volkswagens and other economically...