Word: raring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Muhammad Ali was my hero, and as he thrived, so did I. His defiance of and accomplishments in white America were exceptional. He exemplified that rare man who seems to be able to control his fate, who calls all the shots. The defeat of this champion scares and depresses...
...restaurants serve rich pastries and gourmet meals without the sullen service all too common in other East European cities. Billboards and newspapers (although not television) display imaginative and colorful ads urging consumers to buy a myriad of goods, from baby powder to air mattresses. To the rare visitors from the Soviet Union, most of this is unbelievable. One Russian, gazing into a Budapest show window, could not believe that the department store was state-owned (it is). "It's impossible," he said. "These things are too beautiful. Besides, there are no queues...
...guilders (roughly $1,000) apiece; the 35 parchment copies were a little more. Now three of the 48 complete or partial Gutenberg Bibles still known to exist are on the market in New York City. The asking price has been as high as $2.5 million, which is what Rare-Book Dealer Hans P. Kraus tried, unsuccessfully, to get for the Bible he acquired in 1970. But the price for the copies being put up for sale by the General Theological Seminary and the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library is considerably less. There is some doubt that the seminary's copy...
...course, winter golf requires special equipment of a fairly refined nature. One necessary accoutrement is the biodegradable golf tee. This rare accessory was put on the market last year. Instead of hunting for a white tee in the snow, the player simply leaves his tee behind. It slowly dissolves and seeps down to fertilize the underlying turf...
...soaring above the summit, trying to land on the slope that leads to the precipice, when the wind stopped. Caught in a rare, freakish downdraft, the kite plummeted. When he saw he would be unable to land he shifted his weight and thrust at the control bar, trying to turn away from the cliff, head out over the ocean, gain some altitude and try again. He didn't have time. Striking the cliff about 15 feet below the summit, he slid 25 feet down the stone face to a ledge. Then the inland wind resumed and pinned the kite...