Word: loft
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Americas can be found deeply laminated in the characters of the candidates themselves. It may be, as TIME'S Hugh Sidey observes, that the difference is rooted in the Sunday schools of Yorba Linda, Calif., and Mitchell, S. Dak. Richard Nixon was the Quaker, sitting in a tiny loft room with a few neighborhood children beside his father, who was the teacher. The children were taught to look inward. The emphasis was on the individual, what he felt, what he could and should do. Each person created his own world...
...from Cape Kennedy into a low (110 nautical miles) orbit above the earth. At a greater tilt to the equator than the orbits used during the U.S. moon shots, it will carry Apollo directly over the Soviets' Tyuratam cosmo drome in central Asia. From there, the Russians will loft a two-man Soyuz spacecraft into a slightly higher orbit of 145 miles. Apollo will then begin a sequence of maneuvers, lasting another day or so, to raise its elevation and bring it within sight of Soyuz. When the ships are finally linked up, the astronauts and cosmonauts will begin...
...attempted loft shot, Lord overran the ball and fell, knocking it back to Foster. Foster, now inside the circle, lifted the ball over Lord and the goalie's outstretched pad for the tying goal...
...punching bag. But it is of a piece with the aims and the actual look of his constructions. They are to be swung on, climbed, played with. "Mark can set kids going the way nobody else I've heard of can," says his dealer, Richard Bellamy. "His loft is always full of them...
...operating bar in New York. It has been dispensing draft beer and meatballs to the warehouse workers since the 1870s. It shuts on the stroke of 9, leaving Prince Street (on Saturday nights) to the beery wassailing of the Daughters of Bilitis, a militant lesbian organization quartered in a loft near by. There are no boutiques, no sleazy head shops hustling Moroccan love beads made in Jersey City to tourists from Duluth, no taxis, no clubs. For the casual visitor, the most baffling thing about the loft district is that it does not have a "scene" at all; nothing apparently...