Word: match
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PROD study, the top Teamsters appear as a cabal of executives with six-figure salaries and perks to match, including free vacations, French chefs at international headquarters in Washington, and the use of the seven jets and turboprops in the Teamster "air force," which is one of the largest private fleets in the country. Some specifics...
Urso, a stocky consensus All-American for what seems the last century, spent the afternoon trying to defy the laws of physics by threading his swarthy body through hordes of defenders. He was no match for Cornell's lax trio. And eventually, the laws of Mother Nature caught up to him in the form of an immoveable object. In the waning seconds, three riders converged on Urso, who was trying to advance the ball upfield, and put him flat on his face, a la Richard Dunn. Urso never saw McEneaney feed French for the Big Red's final tally...
...election on June 20 began last week, the Communists-perhaps prophetically-seemed to be first off the mark. From Rome top party officials fanned out to speak at urban rallies across the country, disciplined young Communist workers-like sports fans lined up early for scarce tickets to a soccer match-laid siege to courthouses to file for the top spot on Italy's complicated ballots, granted on a first-come first-served basis. Almost invariably, the Communists beat out representatives of the eleven other parties...
Ironically, Commoner continues, if the nation really wanted to solve energy problems, it could. One way would be to match energy-demanding tasks to resources. Using fast electrified trains for journeys up to 500 miles should be encouraged, for example, because they use energy efficiently. But burning coal or oil in a power plant to heat homes electrically should be discouraged because 97% of the energy is wasted. Indeed, all heating and cooling of U.S. buildings should be done with solar energy, which is virtually limitless and thus, at least in the long run, cheap...
...17th novel, Author Peter De Vries, 56, again shows that he is more than a match for the absurdities of modern life. Give him the latest fad, the most flaccidly permissive excuse for current thought, and he will top it nearly every time. With-it Protestantism? De Vries offers a minister who does impressions of movie stars from the pulpit and later throws a brunch at the "Après Church." The new amorality? He comes up with a mother who boasts that her unmarried daughter is having "one of those no-fault pregnancies." The macho style in Washington politics...