Word: neared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strip we see Calvin's father reading quietly, when Calvin runs into the room, deflects an imaginary bullet off his chest near his dad and then runs off again. The strip is done with only four words and with the father's viewpoint in mind, and it succeeds...
Despite its near-monopoly of ball possession, the nationally fourth-ranked Big Red could not put the Crimson away until late in the fourth quarter, as the teams see-sawed back and forth for the majority of the game...
...took himself to the mayor's office. "We really ought to get out," he growled. Gradually, others agreed. The bay's tugboat captains were worried that a submerged pipe might snag their anchors. City Councilman Dan Hauser, now a state assemblyman, feared an invasion of developers along a pipe near Highway 101. Then a citizens' committee in nearby Manila, a residential ( district near a planned pipeline, sued and stalled the project for nearly two years...
City-hall workers naturally dubbed their new professorial task force "Fishy" (Allen), "Tweety" (Harris, the bird man) and "Blue Eyes" (Gearheart). Another nickname mattered: an abandoned dump near the oxidation pond was called Mount Trashmore. No one put it all together until Allen probed his students one day. A student "who slept all the time" raised his hand. No problem, the student said. "Just run it ((the wastewater)) around Mount Trashmore...
Like their white counterparts, black-colleges have become savvy promoters, competing aggressively for students and philanthropic dollars. Gone are the days when black-college presidents enjoyed a near monopoly on black-college hopefuls. Today they are more inclined to run their schools like a business, placing corporate brass on their boards and going head to head with Brown, Duke and other top schools for the most promising black youths...