Word: hazardous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...design that prompted some reviewers to invoke Tolstoy when Fox was published will emerge again. But Hughes is 73, and a painfully slow writer. When he conceived his ambitious project he had only two novels to his credit: the minor classic A High Wind in Jamaica (1929) and In Hazard (1935). He took 17 years of research and writing to produce Fox. Between Fox and Shepherdess, he and his readers have aged more than his characters...
...million, including $1.7 million for the office complex known as the Western White House and $550,000 for communications equipment. There were many other expenses listed, some of them only tenuously connected with "security." Among these items were $998.50 to remove a wrought-iron handrail deemed hazardous and $1,950 to prune trees and eliminate what the GSA called a "safety hazard caused by dead branches...
...wealthy weekend golfers (the number was chosen "for patriotic reasons") called "the Golfing Friends of the President." They spent $75,000-in cash and donated materials-for the links, and published a brochure that uses poetry to describe the course's splendors. It has one artificial water hazard, two sand traps, and springhole cups that pop a ball out after it is sunk...
...most widely recognized hazard to participants in the country's fastest-growing sport is epicondylitis, or tennis elbow (TIME, May 14). Now a New York City physician has identified still another threat to tennis players. Writing in the Archives of Dermatology, Dr. Richard C. Gibbs reports that he has been treating an increasing number of players with "tennis toes." The condition is characterized by the discoloration of toenails-usually on the longest toes-which turn bluish-violet. Sometimes they even come off. It is caused, Gibbs says, by hemorrhaging that occurs beneath the toenail when the player stops abruptly...
Representatives of the farm workers said that the Teamsters and growers had hired thugs to beat and harass picketing farm workers. Joseph Sprague, a representative of the Massachusetts Council of Churches, who has recently returned from a tour of the strike area, said that police beatings are a constant hazard facing the striking workers...