Word: pistone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...counterpart, with plants stretching along the Great Lakes from Windsor, Ont., to Montreal. They are owned by Detroit's Big Four automakers, and 80% of the cars built go to the U.S. The auto-manufacturing operations of the two countries have long been operating together like a piston and a crankshaft...
...orchestra with strings and woodwinds able to negotiate the Russian's tricky, sassy writing, as well as a brass section prepared to blast away with dignity when the time comes, as it often does. It also needs a conductor with an ear attuned to its harmonic piquancies and piston-engine rhythms. Slatkin and his crack orchestra, who are evolving the most exciting orchestral partnership since George Szell transformed the Cleveland Orchestra about 30 years ago, have what it takes in full measure. They impressively realize the score's biting sardonicism and icy beauty...
...that could withstand both arctic cold and desert heat-but one may wonder whether the case is worth eight times as much as the camera it holds. Defense Department Engineer Ralph Applegate was fired six years ago for disclosing that the services were paying $1,130 a piece for piston rings that civilian buyers could purchase for as little as $100 each. Explanations are still being sought about why the Navy spent $18,000 on a couch for the officers' wardroom of one destroyer. Asked what special features made the couch so expensive, an admiral replied that officers would...
Amid all this unbridled joy one Piston rose above all my other idols. M.L. Carr, Detroit's smooth small forward, was the kind of player who could burn an opposing team all night and then walk off the court joking with his foes...
Four years later, former Piston Head Coach Herb Brown is teaching basketball to high school girls somewhere in Arizona. Ben Poquette is a scrub with Utah, and Bob Lanier is closing out his playing days in Milwaukee...