Word: method
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Americans had done poorly for several years in international competition and the only solution was to experiment with the method of selecting boats for the Olympics. Parker headed the effort to seek out talented oarsmen for a national team. Formerly, the best college or club crew went to the Games...
...Another method of determining spring's arrival is to walk down to the Coop annex on Saturday afternoon. If you hear a lot of loud music, see some freaks milling around, and bargain hunters scouring the record racks at a celebrated "sidewalk" sale (actually it is a garage) for a copy of Thunderclap Newman, then you know that spring...
Even the more important Women's Lib causes, such as abortions on request or the Equal Rights Amendment, fail to stir the black community. To many blacks, explains Jean Noble, executive director of the National Council of Negro Women, "abortion is genocidal, a method of limiting the black population. Muslim groups, for instance, say that the role of the black woman is to produce warriors for the revolution." Of the Equal Rights Amendment, Noble says, "I call it the liftin' and totin' bill. More than half of the black women with jobs work in service occupations...
...Donnally Miller's vague and woeful wildman has a strange way of displaying innocent curiosity. He even speaks his lines as if they themselves are a source of wonderment-it's perfect. Laure Solet's performance brings the concept of complaint to its highest reaches, with a successful method that can only be called nervous nonchalance. All in all Sam Shepard's play is so vigorously acted that one's magnanimity cannot help but extend to the entire cast of thousands of crab lice...
Although Chinese surgeons prefer acupuncture analgesia as a method of controlling pain, drugs are always made available in case the acupuncture does not work, Wald noted...