Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ACCORDING to eyewitnesses, it "pops," "hops," "skips," "jumps," "bams," "burns," "booms," "tails," "sails," "smokes," "swoops," "sinks" or just plain "whooshes." If it sounds like a UFO, that is only because the hitters who have faced the fearsome fastball of Oakland A's Pitcher Vida Blue tend to endow it with out-of-this-world qualities. Roy White, the otherwise stable outfielder for the New York Yankees, claims that the Blue darter "speeds up on you and then seems to disappear." Kansas City Royals Third Baseman Paul Schaal swears that "it jumps right over your bat." After his world champion Baltimore...
...latest). At present, neither the U.S. nor any other nation has taken a stand on protecting the oceans beyond the twelve-mile limit, which many countries do not recognize anyway (see THE LAW). Small island nations like Japan and Britain, in fact, have made it plain that they will fight any prohibition on mid-ocean dumping because they simply have nowhere else to bury their wastes...
Glorious Spontaneity. Between ocean and mountain stretches the broad, featureless plain whose uninspired development Banham calls "Anywheresville/ Nowheresville." But soon freeways stamped man's imprint on this heartland too. Each great road had the potential to become "a work of art, both as a pattern on the map, as a monument against the sky, and as a kinetic experience." Of course, the roads bred more cars, and cars bred what Banham calls "a coherent state of mind." One symptom: the emphasis on driving everywhere, a "willing acquiescence in an incredibly demanding man/machine system." Another: the customized...
...chairman of International Foodservice Systems Inc. (IPS), and he claims to be the youngest chief executive of any company listed on the American Stock Exchange. Figuring that Fink was not the proper name for a titan with his credentials, he dropped it in 1968 and legally became plain Steven Sanford...
Granite Mask. Still, if Madame was a monster, she could be an endearing one, a cross between Auntie Mame and J.P. Morgan. She was, as O'Higgins points out, both earthy and plain-spoken to friends in high places and low. Her main problem seems to have been in dealing with those close to her, and except on rare, touching occasions, she could or would not allow true emotion to penetrate her granite mask...