Word: flaked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...articles about nature, Kirk has already won awards for her studies of such subjects as deserts and whales. She deserves another for Snow. With her forest-ranger husband, she spent five winters on a part of Mount Rainier, where snow depths regularly reach to the third-story window. Each flake, she explains, is in fact clusters of crystals that become stuck together as they fall. She tells how the crystals themselves form, and how snow changes once it falls. It is useful information, especially for skiers, who should wax their boards differently for different types of snow. Small wonder...
...thing, I'm a second-semester senior with a great deal on my mind. My undergraduate days are reduced with every passing flake, and I have far more important things to do than write about snow. Things like eating, sleeping and figuring out how many times I've seen each episode of "Happy Days...
...apartment, with an old stereo and a generous supply of Coors beer, nonplussed by the publicity. Soon the sportscasters' favorite line (crooned by the likes of Howard Cosell) implied that Fidrych had a few screws loose upstairs--that he was a bit of a flake, a nut, a loony...
...Marilynn Levy. Recalls Marilynn: "Sports? I didn't know from the Twins, and like a cocky little broad, I wasn't impressed, didn't want to be bothered. So I said, 'If Tony Curtis walks in, bring him over instead.' " Carew called her a flake. Hardly an auspicious beginning, but he walked her to her car and asked for her telephone number. For the first time in her life, Marilynn Levy gave a guy she had met in a bar her number. "He called me, and we started seeing each other. No big thing...
...workaholic society Harry Truman would have been a flake. Right in the middle of rebuilding the world after World War II, he used to insist on interludes with his neighbors from Independence, Mo., poker games on his yacht on the Potomac and hours of inexpert splashing around in the warm waters of Key West. He was a successful President...