Word: gristly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Manager Whit Ford said the match was "not too much grist for the mill," although "few matches were total runaways." "Most of the games were 15-10 or 15-11 except for Nixon's," he added...
Specials Sports, music, beauty contests and holidays-all will be grist for dozens of upcoming specials. The networks' purpose will be purely contentious: to lure viewers out of TV habits or to spoil the debut of a rival's series. In the first week of the new season, NBC will present the first of six Laugh-In specials; in the weeks that follow, there will be a four-bout evening of heavyweight boxing, a Doonesbury cartoon special and The Godfather Saga, a nine-hour, four-night extravaganza combining both movies and some outtake footage too. ABC plans...
Kihlstrom agrees that the book "tries to make a lot of connections," but may attempt to tie too many disparate ideas together. He says that although much of Jaynes's theory is "speculative," it is also "very provocative," providing "lots of grist for the theoretical mill, whether or not one buys the whole package...
...guilty of offenses against human rights. Unfortunately, the propagandists have not had to invent many of their charges. Racial discrimination and the Watergate scandal alone provide plenty of ammunition -despite the vast difference between an established policy of repression and a skein of individual abuses; every such event is grist for the Soviet newspapers...
...team's victims turned out to be a coordinator of activities among Black September, the I.R.A. and Basque separatists. His replacement: the mysterious terrorist known as "Carlos," who in 1975 engineered the kidnaping of representatives of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. The book provides the factual grist for a gross of paperback thrillers...