Word: raleigh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office staff at Raleigh Industries, the bicycle manufacturers, worked without heat or light so that all available power could be switched to the production line. A snuff-making firm in Sheffield regeared its production from electric power to a water wheel first used in 1737. There was panic buying of some items, notably bread and toilet paper, and camp suppliers did a booming business in butane lamps and stoves. A Battersea candlestick maker turned out a million candles a day instead of his usual 250,000. His most popular item: a wax effigy of Prime Minister Edward Heath...
...Wolfpack and their constituents, adopting the Avis we-try-harder mentality, prepared for the contest with high spirit and keen concentration. Bumper stickers in Raleigh admonished: STOP THE WALTON GANG. Though the event was televised nationally, some 4,000 State fans journeyed by chartered plane, bus, private car and even motorcycle to St. Louis, where the Shootout was held on neutral ground. Coach Norm Sloan claimed that his team was doing nothing very special to gear up: "We really don't have anything to prove," he said before leaving for St. Louis. But 7 ft. 4 in. Center...
...normal strength among the electorate after the McGovern debacle of 1972. The party picked up the governorship in New Jersey and took control of both houses of the state legislature. Democratic mayors were elected in New York, Minneapolis and Louisville, and black Democrats took over city hall in Detroit, Raleigh, N.C., and Dayton. Democrats swept municipal elections in Connecticut and Kentucky...
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...sharply aware of how religious ideas about good and evil, have become psychoanalytic attempts to treat the troubled soul as if it were a badly adjusted carburetor. He also remains deeply attached to his ex-wife Dolly. When she runs into difficulties with her play about Sir Walter Raleigh, Smackenfelt enriches her script with research and a model characterization of Raleigh that almost leaves the actor with a permanent Devonshire accent...