Word: keeled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This contentment, if nothing else, shines forth on LifeTimes. The music contains no downers for the unwary lister but there are no real highs either. Like Hubbard herself, this album proceeds on an even keel, making little or no impression on its surroundings. In spite of that, and in spite of anyone's best efforts, I suppose this album will gain a wide audience. For in spite of the lack of content, social, emotional or otherwise; in spite of the hackneyed imagery and lackluster performances, this album will be heard. In the dentist's offices, in the banks...
...script the scene took a few lines and a gallon or two of purple ink. The helicopter slams into the rock "with a grinding scream, the blades crumple back like spaghetti, still twisting in a slow-motion convulsion of shrieking metal. Like a great dying bird, it seems to keel over in a last agony, twisting downward in a wrenching, moaning death. Whoomp...
...moment, Carter had won. Inexplicably, however, apparently no one informed the next speaker: Rosalynn Carter, who was there to weld her initials in the keel of the Ohio's sister ship, the Geor gia. Having been briefed in advance by staffers that Glenn might raise the subject of verification, she plowed ahead, reading from typed notes: "It is my feeling, and Senator Glenn understands this, that premature public debate on issues such as this can be very damaging." As for verification, she added, that is "too sensitive" to be publicly discussed...
...square feet of wood through ten feet of water and return his oar for another stroke, all in a little more than one second. Several strokes into the race, the speed of rowing settles slightly, and the oarsman must precisely time his movements, keep the three-foot wide keel balanced, and maintain maximum power for some 200 additional strokes...
...barley and other salt-tolerant crops, but this is a stopgap measure. Explains William Cerutti, 58, who tried growing walnut trees on his 700 acres: "The roots got down and they started getting to the salt. The tips start drying up, and within two or three years the trees keel over, completely dead...