Word: plus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cruising at 35,000 ft., well above any turbulence, descending only in spots to 6,000 ft. for a closer look at the scenery. All the while, the cabin crew kept the sightseers plied with plentiful food and drink. Lunch offered a choice of Tournedos Rossini or Chicken Sauvaroff, plus a special meringue dessert named Peach Erebus. That dish was to be served as the aircraft passed one of the most spectacular sights of the trip: 12,400-ft. Mount Erebus, the polar region's largest volcano, located on Ross Island off the Antarctic coast. (Erebus in Greek mythology...
...pages; $85) is ponderous to heft but impossible to put down. Author Rawls' text is a lively history of these remarkable illustrators, their entrepreneurial triumphs and their battles with an alarming new enemy, the photograph. Better still are the more than 400 illustrations, culled from the 7,000-plus - lithographs that Currier & Ives issued...
...spirit of such soft-core sports events as "Battle of the NFL Cheerleaders," "Battle of the Network Superstars," and "Battle of the Soap Opera Idols," ETS has introducted its own barely-athletic competition. Taking the best elements of "Name That Tune," "The Price is Right," and "Password Plus," ETS is now playing "Guess Your Score," a rigorous psychic battle pitting student against testing service official...
Diverting as the front two sections of the drugstore have indeniably been, it is the rear of the drugstore for which you are destined, and which you fear. Beyond the Dr. Scholl's footpads, and beyond the tampons, Regular, Super and Super-Plus, deodorized or not--beyond the condoms and the contraceptive jellies, the final answer to the equation set up by the cosmetics), is the sick corner...
...into the game proved to be a harbinger of things to come. By the time Dave Conners raised the fists of uncountable Crimson rooters with his overtime goal, the high-pitched hum of the Walter Brown public-address system had become a part of the lives of the 2900-plus who enjoyed the game...