Word: evens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mean Northeasterners. Recalling stereotypical apologies for the Ole South, Russell Baker admitted that it is "true, as the Nixon Republicans assert, that the Northeast is not representative of the U.S." But "even the meanest Northeasterner has nothing against the conservative who knows his place. Many Northeasterners, in fact, grew up in the care of conservative mammies. Many also had conservative daddies." What's more, he added, we "eat at the same table with them...
...often right." Holzman probably listens more carefully than he cares to concede. With Russell in retirement and Chamberlain sidelined for the season with a leg injury, Reed is the best all-around center in basketball. Says Teammate Cazzie Russell: "Willis is a hell of a competitor, even in practice. He makes us play tough...
...ball deep in the backfield, and the idea, he says, "is to get to the line quick. You go pitter-patter-in' up there and they'll be waiting for you with a smile. Then pow! And the lights go out." They rarely go out for Owens, even though he operates in heavy traffic-from tackle to tackle. There have been times, however, when his savage, slashing style-quick start, high knee action, body leaning forward -proved embarrassing. More than once, he has burst through into the secondary, only to have his own momentum carry him helplessly forward...
...employees quit after a short time on the job. (New York's First National City Bank neatly resolved that problem by hiring deaf clerical help in its check-processing department.) City streets, already filled with roaring trucks and buses, are made intolerable by the added din of construction. Even when people sleep, they hear and react to noise, which makes them tired, tense and irritable in the morning...
...loons. But 15 years ago, in an environmental tragedy unwittingly perpetrated by man, large numbers of grebes began dying off, and the once-clear waters of the lake turned murky and green. Now, by introducing a new ecological cycle, scientists have saved Clear Lake's grebes and even clarified its water...