Word: racks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rack themes, a buyer with the money first checks topics in stock, then tells his instructor that he has "chosen" to "write" about one of them. Up-to-date offerings include "Black American Heroes," "Nixon's Influence on the 1970 California Election," "Problems and Possible Solutions to Air Pollution." One service cheerfully composed a theme titled "Why I Wouldn't Use a Professional Term Paper Writing Service...
...Crimson's chances to equal last year's sixth-place finish seem slime. But the team will have an opportunity to rack up points tonight in the finals of the 50 free and 500 free. Cahalan was the 50-free champion in 1969 and is among the favorites tonight, while Steve Kranse will be a top contender in an exceptional 500 field...
Brown is a particularly irritating opponent. Slow, young, and generally mediocre, the Bruins have been out scored this season, 83 to 74, yet they have managed to rack up a 13-6 record and fifth seed in the ECAC...
...train jerked to a halt. Onto the rain-drenched station platform tumbled 21 disheveled passengers. Men in ill-fitting clothes hurriedly handed down bulging cardboard suitcases. One man struggled with a monstrous feather mattress while a small boy darted away to admire the bicycles in a commuter's rack. There were few words, only a rush to get off the train. With good reason. For many of the passengers, the train was a reminder of a world they have been trying to leave since...
...West Coast folk culture of hot-rod and chopper, or to aerospace technology; it has little to do with the "mainstream" of art as defined in New York, and some critics find this hard to forgive. "It is apparently as easy," snorted one writer in Art forum recently, "to rack up in Los Angeles as an artist as it is to be a stringer of beads. In California, the idea of luxe, calme et volupté is simplified into prettiness and expensive-lookingness...