Word: nosedives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A. & P. has been one of the most stodgily managed chains in the industry, and its business has been nibbled away by more inventive retailers. Recently, the hustling Safeway chain, which began discounting in earnest in 1965, nosed out A. & P. as the biggest supermarketeer. Determined to recapture its dominant...
The large-caliber wisecrack, like the horse pistol, is part of America's past. As the Norman Mailer-Germaine Greer exchange indicated recently, the snub-nosed innuendo aimed below the belt is today's favored weapon. When quips were quips even a President of the United States could...
But this personification of the outside power is lost in the next play, Beckett's "Act without Words II." The outside power has become a snout-nosed prod ("the Goad") that rattles on stage to awake first Klein, then Volpe, who like wind-up tops proceed to go through their...
Died. Wallace S. Sayre, 66, urbanologist and early proponent of regional planning; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A spokesman for city government reform since the 1930s, Sayre regarded the creation of combined city-and-suburban planning units as the salvation of metropolitan centers. Though a prominent academician, Sayre never...
Kirkland led all the way after a shaky start, finishing the 1500 meter course in a time of 4:51. Mather was close behind at 4:54 and Quincy nosed out Eliot to take third place with a mark of 4:57.