Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ticket back. I remember they didn't pay so I executed [a lien] on Willie Mays...The jury was out in one minute...I got some soldiers who were on the icecap up at the North Pole, with the Arctic Survival Team, who came in wearing their arctic survival gear, and they said they had been out to Candlestick Park a couple of nights before watching a night game, and they were colder at Candlestick Park than they were on the icecap...I argued the case with a parka...
...still got a long way to go," says General George Blanchard, commander of the NATO-based U.S. Seventh Army, "but we want troops from the States to come here with just their battle gear and personal belongings. The rest would be waiting for them here; much of it already is." As a result, Haig estimates that the number of U.S. combat brigades that could be rushed to Europe within 30 days has doubled...
...billion), which last week announced a proposed merger that is really an $870 million takeover of the much larger tire and rubber maker ('77 sales: $4.4 billion). The advantages are clearer for Firestone and its unhappy stockholders than for Borg-Warner, which makes auto parts, air-conditioning gear, chemicals and plastics...
Admittedly, some of the pathological grist is not just humbug. The shrinks do gear up as though for combat duty during the holidays. Emotional turmoil is easily noticeable and evidently widespread. One pioneering study of Christmas neurosis, published by the University of Utah School of Medicine in the 1950s (and mined ever since by writers assigned to recycle the annual piece on "the holiday blues"), established that as many as nine out of ten people suffer "adverse emotional reactions to Christmas pressures...
...that was that. Their spirit broken, their tongues lagging from fatigue, the lid was sealed on Harvard's hopes of a major upset. South Carolina churned into second gear with a 28-11 spurt over the next ten minutes that made the score 80-57 with 3:31 left...