Word: maps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explaining their techniques to a rapt audience. "Think egg, think oval, think round, think pleasant," said Tan Brunet, a championship carver from Galliano, La. "A bird has no corners." As he talked, a neighbor, Jimmie Vizier, another prizewinning carver, addressed a block of tupelo. Shavings flew. Brunet chalked a map of the United States on a blackboard, understandably skewing the southern dip of Louisiana so that it was more prominent than that of Texas, than that of Florida. He explained migratory patterns, different woods, paints, patterns of feathers, and as his listeners took notes, he threw in a little about...
...earth's atmosphere if the sky filled with smoke and ashes from cities burning during a nuclear war. The answer was the chilling vision of a "nuclear winter" that would blot out the sun and end life on earth. Unmanned satellites help verify arms-control treaties, map ocean currents and weather patterns, even locate mineral deposits...
...BLUE TIDE washed over the electoral map last Tuesday night, it was hard not to believe that powerful forces were at work. Until Minnesota at last logged in for its favorite son Walter F. Mondale, the tiny District of Columbia was the only blemish on the Reagan carpet. In the television booths and living rooms, people talked of "landslides" and "mandates...
...cowed, and he gladly explained how his aid center distributed medical supplies. It was clear from his shabby cassock and waxen complexion that he, unlike some of his colleagues at other Polish churches, rarely availed himself of the fruits of Western aid. In a room upstairs was a large map of Poland showing the location of every political detention center in the country. This quiet, unassuming priest had become a message center for the Solidarity underground, keeping activists in touch with one another. He was a valued source, for he knew better than most what was going...
...projected Reagan the winner, Chancellor offered this immediate thought: "Just that there's a hunger in America for a president who serves eight years." On at least one occasion, Brokaw harkened back to former NBC newsman David Brinkley, now with ABC News. In 1980, Brinkley surveyed the giant NBC map--colored Reagan blue--and labelled it "a suburban swimming pool." It's odd to see Brokaw so drained that he must rely on a former colleague's quip...