Word: looming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...jobs. Novelli intends to streamline and reduce the municipal bureaucracy; he also wants to add 2,000 new classrooms and improve housing. Financing all this will be hard because recession hit Turin heavily. Today unemployment is up 25% from a year ago and is still rising as further cutbacks loom. Transportation will be especially difficult. The mayor wants to give streetcars and buses priority over automobiles, a heretical idea in the Detroit of Italy-Fiat is by far the city's dominant employer. Even Novelli admits that "in Turin, the automobile is like a pagan...
Holly Hill, Orangeburg, Columbia, Clinton-the exits along 1-26 in South Carolina loom in the muggy night like guideposts to ghost towns as the 1958 General Motors coach grinds west. Its odometer creaks past 620,000 miles. The Spartanburg Phillies of the Western Carolinas League-25 eager minor league baseball players-are heading home after losing a night game to the Charleston Pirates. They have not eaten since they left Spartanburg nearly twelve hours ago for the outbound leg of the 420-mile, one-day road trip. Pitcher Jerry Houston and Infielder Raul Nieves are asleep, crammed into...
...press but subsequently shelved-which urged Christians to "respect the religious significance of this link between the people and the land." Tanenbaum and other Jewish leaders are scheduled to meet this week in Rome with their Vatican counterparts, and that link between Jews and Israel will doubtless loom large in their conversations...
...mayor") coexist in a kind of cartoon version of American folklore. About three pages are devoted to the life and times of Frank Sinatra-juxtaposed with a mini-history of the atomic bomb. In the spinning mind of the reader, the Bay of Pigs and the Edsel seem to loom as equal disasters. The Cliquot Club Eskimos and the Chicago Seven, J. Robert Oppenheimer and Howdy Doody-one is no more weightless than the other in such a time-capsule vacuum...
With all the attention being given to next Saturday's soccer "showdown" between Ivy League leaders Harvard and Brown, you'd hardly know that the two squads are playing other Ivy opponents this weekend. And next week's battle might not loom so large if the undefeated Bruins are surprised by Cornell today or the Crimson squad, undefeated in Ivy play, is ambushed by Princeton this morning at 10:30 in New Jersey...