Word: playground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yankee Stadium. Holders of maturing city securities will be turned away emptyhanded. Some of the city's 18 public hospitals will be closed. Subsidies to the Metropolitan Museum, to plays in Central Park and other cultural activities will be cut off. Vendors of "nonessential" city supplies ranging from playground baseball bats to power turbines will not be paid on time. Thousands more-perhaps tens of thousands-city employees will be fired...
...zany mixture of razzle-dazzle football, playground basketball and soccer, Ultimate Frisbee has sprouted on campuses in the East in the past few years and is spreading westward. It could prove to be just the solution for colleges crippled by the runaway cost of athletics -as well as for students who want to play a team sport that avoids high-pressure, must-win contests...
...softspoken, easygoing son of an Indianapolis construction worker, McGinnis learned his basketball on a dusty playground not far from the one where former N.B.A. Superstar Oscar Robertson honed his game. He went to the Pacers after only two years at Indiana University, and has learned to enjoy the amenities that come with his $200,000 annual salary: a three-bedroom bachelor apartment, a stable of four show horses, a red Jaguar and a 19-ft. Chris-Craft...
Even then positions may not be final, as each heavyweight will have the burdensome task of proving to Parker that he cannot be replaced by an oarsman stronger and more skillful than he. And the proving ground will be more a mine field than a playground...
...then unfashionable principle of meritocracy against the open-enrollment school policies established by the Labor governments of the '60s. In one furiously criticized venture, she raised the price of school lunches and cut off the free milk rations for some 3.5 million children, earning for herself the bitter playground chant, "Thatcher, Thatcher, milk snatcher." The $20.7 million per year that she thus saved was used to help finance an ambitious educational-reform program...