Word: newfound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bill Coonrod, a farmer from Monticello, Ind., joined some newfound friends outside his trailer and showed what 40 years of mandolin practice could do. Don Brown, a Huntingburg, Ind., plumbing contractor who slept in his car during the festival's first weekend, opened his trunk and pulled out a five-string fiddle that he had spent two years building. "I played until 4 o'clock in the morning," he said wearily. "That's what the fun of these things is. After the main show is over, everybody gets together and shindigs...
With their newfound mental attitude and a still untested lineup the cagers remain something of a question mark. "You have to let a team unfold and see who you can depend on," says Sanders, who leads his charges against Syracuse in the first round of the Springfield tourney next Friday...
Early in the season, Lauda ticked off victories almost mechanically in South Africa, Brazil, Monaco. But Hunt was closing fast in his McLaren, polishing his driving skills with a newfound concentration. After divorce from Model Suzy Miller (who quickly became Mrs. Richard Burton), Hunt emerged as the only driver seriously to challenge Ferrari's domination. The drivers swapped trips to victory lane while their team managers swapped charges of cheating with wrenches and rule books. Although there was no bad blood between Hunt and Lauda, the rivalry intensified, and the racing world's attention was focused...
...marry anyone important without going to college" is now a criminal prosecutor. Another woman, described by her classmate as "an obsessively hard-working student," now lives in an apartment with a floor "covered with candy wrappers, dirty clothes and used paper towels," refusing to talk about anything but her newfound Christianity...
Jimmy Carter's now-fabled desire to avoid overt reliance on the traditional Boston-Washington axis in this year's presidential campaign consequently doesn't appear to be ruffling too many feathers at Harvard. What does concern many of Carter's hundreds of newfound advisors, however, is that their massive output may not receive adequate attention, by dint of its sheer bulk...