Word: pasadena
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...mixed success. In New Orleans Angels have nabbed a knife-wielding robber with a record of 57 previous arrests and a pickpocket who turned out to be a murder suspect wanted by police. In other cities, their impact is not so clearly evident. A police spokesman in Pasadena, assessing their performance in patrolling the Tournament of Roses Parade, summed up the verdict of many observers: "No runs, no hits and no errors." In Boston the Angels predicted that there would be 250 volunteers on patrol by the end of the year; so far there are only 60. "They attracted...
...Pasadena, Calif...
...Tonight show and the New York Times bestseller list, the flamboyant scientist-cum -showman figured that the only Big Bang left to make was in the world of business. Thus, twelve months ago, Sagan and B. Gentry Lee, a space program manager from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif, began scraping together a $700,000 line of credit from California's Security Pacific National Bank and went into business promoting products for the cosmically conscious...
...held up as testimony to its lofty academic standards, and successes are usually recounted amid apologies. At the mention of the year Northwestern won the Rose Bowl (1949), it is usually added that the Wildcats were merely Big Ten co-champions in 1948 and made the trip to Pasadena because a conference rule prevented Michigan from go ing two years...
Knowledge of our displacement, knowledge of death--these are consciousness for McMichael, and what consciousness does is worry and plan, though it hungers like the wren to say "Here I am," to make a place out of sleep or to make "Pasadena" or a house like a nest, to make love. This is a long American poem remarkable in that it stays completely in the world of ordinary consciousness, of history and fact and daily life. It does not wander into myth, the dark of nature, or sexuality, fun as that might be to read. The passage about lovemaking...