Word: flaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gladieux, a flake from Notre Dame, made his mark with the Patriots a few years back with the way he used to hurl his body at the wedge set up by the kick return team. Gladieux didn't last long; he got his eggs scrambled a little too much from all of the wedges he busted...
...literary scope. Some characters do stand out: Julian English is well drawn, and the recurring figure of Jimmy Malloy, an autobiographical character, is quite believable. But O'Hara the novelist was content to write about a social order that, in the words of the critic Conrad Knickerbocker, "began to flake away...
...balmy breeze began to hum a gentle funeral song for the winter of the wet, snowy flake yesterday, as heliomaniacs took to Harvard Yard in droves to bask in the first rays of the spring...
What does this all mean? This winter has already been schizophrenic weatherwise, with mild and freezing stretches alternating through December and January. And snowfalls that bewildered maintenance crews with their snowy flake yesterday, as heliomaniacs suffered an early demise this month...
...really? For all her troubles, very well, it seems. Norman Lear's soap-opera sendup, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, is now in its seventh week, the most talked-about new show of TV's numb-drum season. Most followers of loopy Mary and the other soap-flake characters of Fernwood must indulge their new addiction either in the afternoon or late at night. Shunned by the networks, the syndicated five-day-a-week serial appears on nearly 70 stations, generally in non-prime-time slots; 30 more stations will start showing it soon. The program is averaging...