Word: gallop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Montana ranch left to him by his father. As the plot progresses to its ironic denouement, Joe courts his teenage sweetheart, rekindles a love affair with the land and comes to terms with some family ghosts -- both dead and alive. Like most McGuane protagonists, Starling is at a gallop between his past and future, an existential cowboy with good intentions and bad habits, determined to take his spiritual malaise by the horns and shake some meaning out of it. He is, in other words, a lot like Thomas McGuane...
UConn took a 10-0 lead early in the second quarter when Gallaher tallied his first touchdown, a 7-yard gallop to cap off a 12-play, 66-yard drive...
...enough for the animals to stand comfortably after the operation without a splint. (Earlier attempts frequently failed when the high-strung animals destroyed their casts, reinjuring their legs.) At Tufts, rehabilitation after surgery includes therapy on a gaited treadmill that can be set from a walk to a hard gallop. After recovery, many of the animals return to racing; otherwise, they serve their owners lucratively as brood mares or by standing at stud...
...along with those advantages come significant snags that many lenders neglect to advertise. The vast majority of home-equity loans are tied to fluctuations in the prime lending rate, now 8.25%, and can vary enormously in cost as that rate changes. If the prime were to gallop from 8% to 20.5%, as it did between 1978 and 1981, someone now paying 9.75% on a home-equity loan might suddenly have to pay 22.25%. Such a whopping increase is possible because many equity loans lack the so-called caps common to ordinary variable- rate mortgages, which limit interest-rate hikes...
...Jacinto, Comanche raids, cattle drives, oil, religion, high school football, superpatriotism and real estate dodges. Much of this is fascinating, but it is propelled by a strange device: Michener imagines a committee appointed by a Texas Governor to investigate the state's history. Every time the story begins to gallop, accounts of the get-togethers slow the narrative to a plod. Even in Super-America, apparently, the only dependable result of committee meetings is ennui...