Word: glides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work in his gleaming Lincoln Continental, Defense Attorney Edward Bennett Williams, 54, might glide by a straining bicyclist named Frank Tuerkheimer, 35, heading in the same direction. After putting in a morning's work in his spacious suite of Washington offices, Williams may lunch at the Sans Souci. Tuerkheimer brown-bags it in his cramped, spartan office, where he works as a Government lawyer...
...guitar, notes can bend, slide and wave. Sounds can glide through all the frequencies between two fixed pitches-just as the human voice does-enabling Sear's musical clone to produce any sound imaginable. Moreover, the guitar can now match a keyboard Moog's titanic output decibel for decibel. In live performance, the complex studio wall synthesizer with its winking lights and patchcord jungle can be replaced by a portable console...
There is risk in skating out to trim the angle. If the goalie only deflects the puck, an opponent may slip behind him to flip a rebound into the open net. Should he glide beyond the crease, the goalie is subject to the bone-rattling body checks that players use to knock opponents out of the play. Parent usually manages to avoid these griefs by trapping the puck cleanly or deflecting it toward the corner with his stick...
...belongs to Pemex, the state oil monopoly; farmers receive money only for their land and no petroleum royalties. "They are worried that our drilling will ruin their fishing," says a Pemex engineer aboard the Chac, a marine drilling platform named for the Mayan rain god, as two fishermen glide by in a dugout canoe...
Also back - quite literally - on an old stomping ground last week was Chicago Correspondent Richard Woodbury, who reported to the Nation section on Round-the-World Walker David Kunst. Following on the heels of an earlier crack at peripatetic journalism - a glide-along with Cross-Country Roller Skater Clint Shaw last June -Woodbury logged ten huffing-and-puffing miles of legwork with the quick Kunst against a stiff head wind on a northern Iowa road...