Word: finding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guess. You ran the insipid article on the chicken flying contest [July 2] just to see if anyone was reading American Scene. Well I read it, and I find chicken flying in the same category as fox clubbing, dog fighting, cock righting and rattlesnake throwing...
Though many windsurfer dealers offer to teach the sport in six hours (generally two three-hour sessions at $40 each), a beginner may find the initial experience a wet one. "The first few times out," says Boston's Rollin C. White, "it's more accurate to call it wind-swimming." Adds Robby Naish of Hawaii, who last year won a world championship: "The reason I became such a good windsurfer is that I liked falling in the water." A certain amount of upper-body strength is needed to hold the sail aloft, but more experienced wind-surfers...
Virtually nothing in the Carter program would immediately produce, or even save, a drop of oil. The only element that takes effect promptly is a presidential order limiting imports this year to an average 8.2 million bbl. a day. American oil companies almost surely could not find much more than that to bring in even if there were no quota; imports so far in 1979 have averaged only 8.145 million bbl. a day. For 1980 the daily limit will be set somewhere between 8.2 million and 8.5 million bbl. Because the recession in the U.S. economy has begun, imports probably...
...turned in the second fastest 800 meter in the world last year. Still, no one saw him as any threat to his celebrated countryman Steve Ovett, 23, who until last week was the top-rated miler around. Ovett had cockily predicted that any winner at Oslo would find victory "hollow," because he was not entered. Afterward, he graciously credited Coe with "a superb piece of work...
...McKibben states everyone there had already decided that they were anti-nuke, and they were just hearing things they already knew. Still, when I talked with people there, I ran into some who were participating in the anti-nuke movement for the first time, and had come simply to find out what it was all about. I was one of them...