Word: elwood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...JAKE AND ELWOOD Blues have finally hit the big time. The two orphans from Rock Island, Illinois have survived years of arduous life on the road to find sudden fame and fortune in New York and L.A., proving themselves to be players, alas, very much ready for prime time...
Roueché is no less provocative when he turns to more animate objects. Elwood Schmidt maintains a solo medical practice in the lonely little New Mexican town of Jal. With a few carefully chosen quotes, Roueché brings the doctor to life and makes the reader care about him. "Here's a man with nothing wrong with him except he's drunk by noon every day of his life," laments Schmidt to Roueché after his dinner has been interrupted by a would-be patient. "Goddamned people in this town who think I'm like that light...
Michael Danby Elwood, Australia
Sensing that the time was ripe for action in the Bay State last winter, Oteri assumed responsibility for directing NORML's lobbying efforts on Beacon Hill. The decriminalization issue had benefited from a recent Oteri test case on cocaine. In a Roxbury Court last fall, Judge Elwood McKinney ruled that cocaine prohibition in its present form was unconstitutional. According to some observes, the cocaine controversy has drawn attention away from decriminalization, giving both politicians and drug-oriented interest groups more room in which to maneuver...
...careful because you can blow a hangar off the ground. Another thing, you've got 350 tons of momentum when you're taxiing, and you don't go cowboying around. But once it's airborne, it's an absolutely superb flying machine." Former FAA Administrator Elwood R. ("Pete") Quesada insists that "the 747 is the safest and most reliable air transportation yet designed...