Word: pills
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book on the subject called Who's Who on Texas Highways & Bi-ways. A dermatologist selected SKIN for his plate, a surgeon chose CUT UP, and a dentist picked SAY AHH. The owner of a mattress shop took SLEEP, a salvage contractor used JUNKIE, and a pharmacist chose PILL. Various Volkswagen owners have labeled their beetles LUV BUG, V-DBL-U and EL BUG. Ernest Campbell of Dallas could not resist SOUP, and Eli H. Lipton of the same city coyly selected T BAGS. Clergymen have embraced such identifications as 4 JESUS and TRY GOD. OOOOPS was the plate...
Snare the Pill...
...junior failed to snare the pill through the game's first 14 minutes, but his teammates came on strong when Sanders pulled his team out of the zone. The Bruins went ahead, 14-13, and battled head-on with Harvard, albeit without Brown's rebounds, to trail only 31-30 at halftime...
...common malaise of Cambridge orchestras--that the strings are too few and too weak--does not appear in the BSOT ensemble. In this small orchestra the strings hold their own with a section of fine winds. This evenness in the orchestra makes the opera an easier pill for an inexperienced audience to swallow...
...book has been touted by showbiz types like Actor Anthony Perkins, Columnist Rex Reed and Playwright Neil Simon (if he's gloomy, he says, he downs it twice a day like a pill, with a glass of water). To be sure, some of these enthusiasts whose advertised endorsements boosted the book's sales happen to be patients of Mildred Newman and Bernard Berkowitz-the husband-and-wife team who wrote the book with the help of a friend, Jean Owen. But the bestseller obviously has other less prejudiced fans as well. "It seems like something a good friend...