Word: limitless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whifflers find they have to adapt to unusual conditions around Harvard because of cyclical changes of spring. Every year about this time, just when the turf should take on a green hue and provide limitless acreage for whiffleball diamonds, traditions intervene...
...most eloquent of men, Phillies manager Danny Ozark once attempted to praise an outfielder with this gem: "Mike's limitations are virtually limitless...
What else may biorhythm be applied to? Opportunities are limitless, says Pete Callinicos, a captain in the Denver fire department who runs a biorhythm business on the side. Callinicos says the theory can put compatible policemen in squad cars, determine the patterns of arsonists and maybe even prevent birth defects. Another advantage to biorhythm is that it provides extra income for a swelling number of entrepreneurs. With an investment of about $4,000, says Thommen, anybody can rent a bit of computer time and sell 30? charts for $10. In the rush for profits, laments Thommen, some...
...Fuel II will sell for about the same price as coal or natural gas, which is well below the going rate for imported oil. Says CEA President Robert Beningson: "The market for resource recovery is almost limitless." Beningson, a man who thinks big, estimates that if all the garbage in the country were converted to powdered fuel, it would add the equivalent of 2 million bbl. a day to the nation's oil supplies, or about the same amount as the oil that will flow through the Alaska pipeline at peak capacity...
...deep in the piney woods, these Americans are, for the most part, culturally disfranchised. They were raised on the old American popular culture, on the myth of the individual who is the master of his own fate, truckles to no man or institution, and whose possibilities are as limitless as a Great Plains horizon. Now, however, employers, unions, governments regulate their lives. Mortgage obligations and even rising Social Security deductions hem them in. The open road, down which escape always seems possible, has become a featureless eight-lane interstate, with a Smokey Bear lurking at every cloverleaf. For those people...