Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...losses were against Courageous. Intrepid's ebullient supporters have responded by plastering their cars and yachts with KNOCK ON WOOD bumper stickers. There are even some Frenchmen who may be smiling too. Only one foreign boat can become the official challenger, and to earn that designation the favored Southern Cross will have to beat France, a wooden vessel owned by French Bic Pen Tycoon Baron Marcel Bich...
...toward all human beings is radical," he responded, "then I am a radical." Completing his second term and probably en route to a third as Democratic Congressman from California's Eighth District, Dellums still leans far to the left; he was one of only eight House members to earn a perfect score in the latest rating of the ecology-minded League of Conservation Voters. A Marine Corps veteran, Dellums is a former psychiatric social worker...
...over now for another four years, and the winners will not noticeably earn for their country increased political prestige or an unwonted influx of tourists. Soccer remains a closed language, an alternative to politics, and perhaps after all a harmless substitute for war. For the aficionados of the working and middle classes, it is art, poetry, music, the sole palliation of the boredom of the office and workbench...
...Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield. No matter. He spares us any anguished memories about teen-age sex. He is full of sentiment but no self-pity. His quotes and anecdotes are often sharp and funny. "If thee marries for money," his Quaker stepfather once admonished him, "thee surely will earn it." Most important, Bowen writes about small boys, his own children included, with affection and dignity. His wife, he admits, recently complained that while he had passed 40, he had passed it going in the wrong direction because he never played with anyone who was more than twelve years...
...National and American League hitters with the best spitball, or slickest greaseball, in the game. Working his way up from simple saliva to sea moss, baby oil, hair tonic, slippery elm slop, Vaseline and finally vaginal jelly, Perry had loaded up the ball well enough to win 183 games, earn $100,000 a year, and be selected as the best pitcher in the A.L. in 1972. Then last winter, officials decided to bounce the illegal but nevertheless popular pitch by giving umpires the right to eject anyone they suspect of using...