Word: quickers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Csonka, Kiick and Warfield signed with the Toronto Northmen for a combined total of $3 million, everybody figured the World Football League was on its way a lot quicker than the old AFL. After all, the AFL was knee-deep in pro wrestlers, cowboys, antique Olympians, mystics, and castoff construction workers for a good part of their first five years of existence. Back then, no one thought of tapping Paul Hornung or Bart Starr on the shoulder and asking him if he would be interested in mere cash. These were gods and they were playing in the big leagues...
Verbal Notes. Hartman uses a pair of tape recorders for much of his studying, taping lectures on one and dictating notes to himself on the other. "It is quicker and easier to learn from tape than to rely on Braille," he explains. His only Braille texts are a medical dictionary and a notebook of emergency procedures. He has learned anatomy by touch, sticking his hands into cadavers to learn the shape, location and feel of the body's organs. To master histology he listens to classmates' descriptions of cells seen through a microscope...
...long; Sergeant Culpepper, the medic who solemnly affirms that American medicine is as good as scorpion urine; Colonel Quoc, ambitious and rising fast in the Saigon command but terrified of his astrology chart and unwilling to endanger his career by resisting an NLF attack. It becomes apparent, slowly (but quicker than it should, since Rubin at his subtlest is pretty elephantine), that these and other people's interaction is building towards a catastrophe: the destruction of Buon Yun and the American soldiers it welcomed at the hands of an NLF assault team and a miscalculating American bomber pilot...
...even breathes half-sarcastically, jaded beyond belief. Here it's not a world-wise jaded: the landscape of his face is as dissipated as the roads and stations--all blear, stare, and past-drunk. This is the heavy-lidded look of a Robert Mitchum, except that his moves are quicker: he's dead and jaunty at the same time. The adroitness comes from doing everything with ceremony: never has anyone ever used a napkin with more style, only the style is devilish and cynical. He's got class with a seventies lack of it. But the even, keel is only...
...Some cities that are particularly close to refineries and oilfields, like Houston, or have better than average distribution faculties, like Atlanta, tend to get petroleum supplies quicker than less well-located metropolitan areas. The Midwest is well supplied by pipelines from Canada...