Word: reared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Smoother-rolling radial tires could become universal. Cars may be made almost entirely of plastic to cut body weight?though not if the oil shortage continues to reduce the supply of petrochemical feedstocks from which plastics are made. Autos will almost surely be shorter in front and rear and roomier inside. They will probably be more expensive but possibly built to last longer; annual model changes are already becoming less pronounced, and the public is likely to be more impressed with quality construction than frequent cosmetic restyling. Says AMC's Chapin: "I think we're headed toward smaller, more efficient...
When the results were tabulated and published, eight principals earned "outstanding" marks, eight were termed "good," four were judged "poor" and two luckless educators brought up the rear as "unsuited." One of those two, Fred L. Dunn Jr., slapped the Sentinel with a $21 million libel suit, later reduced to $15 million...
...support the crowds inside without collapsing in the rear...
Such talk may be no more than martial posturing. Nonetheless, a serious clash of troops would bring to a halt the current momentum toward peace. At his Washington press conference last Thursday, Kissinger expressed considerable concern that because "both sides are in the rear of each other, there is danger of military encirclement." He concluded that "there is a very great need for separation of forces...
COOLIDGE CORNER stop. About ten people pushed their way onto the trolley, plunked their forty-five cents into the farebox, and moved to the rear, the driver repeating his drone, "Don't forget your fares, please, your fares." Meanwhile, the elderly woman next to me had been leaning forward towards the floor; she reached down awkwardly, coming back up with a bunch of dollar bills as wrinkled as her paste-white hands. Thoroughly bewildered, she looked...