Word: planet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sunshine Cab Co. was a place to work in that became a place to live in. And your co-workers became your friends: Alex the off-duty rabbi, and sweet dim Tony, and Latka the gentle schizoid. And Reverend Jim, phoning in his blissed-out wisdom from Planet X. And Elaine, the only woman, who desperately wanted to be somewhere else but couldn't leave the place she knew as home...
...fourth Alamo irregular, 6-ft. 7-in. Director and Choreographer Tommy Tune, fears that the shorter King will "strike" him: "I go home exhausted and all I can see when I close my eyes is your angry face!" King scratches his head. "That dude grew up on a different planet," he decides...
...universally condemned.) The Argentine military must now, Galtieri said, be turned back to its proper role. I took this task in hand, explaining to my hearers that although Argentina was many thousands of miles from where so much of the international action lay, we all lived on the same planet and had to see it whole. The Beagle Channel at the southern tip of Argentina, for example, was to them of compelling interest. Yet the Strait of Hormuz and the waterways through the Indonesian archipelago, industrial Japan's lifeline, were perhaps more important. I did not, I said, soon...
...assortment of data on all of the world's great faiths. It has LIFE magazine-size pages, endless charts and graphs, numerous illustrations and enough credibility in its facts, conclusions and methodology to make it a bench mark in our understanding of the true religious state of the planet. Even for as zealous a researcher as Barrett, 54, an Anglican missionary, the project required the patience of Job. He trekked to 212 countries and territories, often lugging bulky statistical histories, occasionally confronting suspicious customs agents, frequently phoning his team of 21 editors and consultants around the world. He also...
...averting war. Once reporters begin, as many find it irresistible to do, by evoking images of a fiery doomsday, it is hard to shift readers' attention to cold-eyed consideration of deterrence. The impulse in much of the public is simply to cry out for ridding the planet of such weapons...