Word: crystal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gladiators of the Ivies face competition from outside the league, traditionally a good spot for almost everyone to pick up much needed momentum. With a reminder that I nailed 31 out of 40 games last year for a percentage of .775, we turn now to the crystal ball, located in the middle of the Ouija board littered with tarot cards, to predict this week's winners in what appears to be a disturbingly tough slate of eight games...
...last Sunday Briggs and I discovered we're no oddsmakers. We stumbled upon our myopia as a steel-tempered sky burned into crystal-hung night. We went chasing jail-bait and missed our aim and slummed our way into Daniel and Gay's ceric world...
Just a sip out of the Jack Daniels bottle in which Peg kept his hot as ice and clear as crystal brew was enough to feel a hell of a jolt, but Daniel had to go and pour the whole thing into his beer and Gay came back and, taking off her denims, climbed into the tub and suddenly it was right. Shooting stars peeled off the cob of the Milky Way, iridescent silk whipped off the rich black and yellow health of night, plunging into the darkness of the valley where a pair of headlights twined down the pass...
Many contributors had ideas for new kinds of vehicles: a personal trolley-auto advocated by Ronald Uher of Crystal Lake, Ill., for example, could either hook up to overhead electric trolley lines or run on its own power. Other suggestions focused on improving mass-transit finances. Several people proposed that municipal buses, trolleys and subway cars earn additional Income by hauling freight in off-hours. To produce perhaps $1.5 million in annual revenues, Benjamin Lawless of Washington, D.C., urged that a grain crop be grown on the 5 million acres of federal land bordering the interstate highways. Then there...
...West Berlin, where he paid a visit to the city's Jewish Community Center. It stands on the site of what was once Berlin's Central Synagogue. All that remains of the original building is a chunk of wall. The rest was destroyed on the notorious "Crystal Night" of Nov. 9, 1938, when storm troopers savagely wrecked Jewish homes, synagogues and plate-glass ("crystal") shop windows. Before the war, 175,000 Jews lived in Berlin, but only 6,000 remain there today (with 27,000 in all of West Germany...