Word: low
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...line snakes out of Pearl, the row of cars picks up speed, and the cab's chimney spouts black smoke that swirls around the head of Steve Harris, who is kneeling on the house's gray-green roof and raising low-hanging telephone wires. The town is left behind, and the landscape shifts to fields of cotton and soybean. As he approaches the Ross R. Barnett Reservoir, Malone pulls a lever on the floor, cranking a cable that raises the house an extra foot so it just barely clears the side railings. "I've been doing this for 20 years...
...survival produced unaccustomed cooperation and civility. On the night of the quake, there were only 25 arrests for vandalism in San Francisco, down from the usual 100 or so, though such arrests were a low police priority that evening. Countless residents grabbed flashlights to direct traffic at intersections where signal lights had stopped. In the seedy Mission district of San Francisco, a woman carrying two flashlights, precious as gold under the circumstances, overheard two men discuss stealing one. In a rare spirit of camaraderie, they refrained...
...tremble, TIME staff members in San Francisco found themselves living the story they would report. Lee Griggs and Dennis Wyss were squeezed into an open-air press box in the upper deck of Candlestick Park, awaiting the start of the third game of the World Series. "I heard a low rumble, and my first thought was that the Giants fans were stamping their feet in unison," Wyss recalls. An instant later, the stands began rocking back and forth. A native San Franciscan, Wyss was sure an earthquake had struck. So was Griggs, who as TIME's Tokyo bureau chief...
...keep games long and complicated, and get Kasparov low on time, we should do well," Edelman said...
More than one-fourth of all Native Americans live in poverty, Strickland said. Life expectancy is exceptionally low, he said, and suicide rates for Native American youths reach 10 to 100 times the level of youths in other groups...