Word: roading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus the Teamsters' leadership is caught on a narrow, twisting road. If it accepts too little, it weakens its hold on the rank and file. If it pushes for too much, it risks the wrath of the White House and possible deregulation. Finding a compromise that will satisfy all sides is likely to be as difficult as gunning a ten-ton truck through the eye of a needle...
...Dickens? It is fine to be "after Dickens," but in this case the distance is embarrassing. Great Expectations would seem to offer rich and practical material for an opera. Pip's progress through the world is eventful, and he does not meet a single dull soul on his road to self-knowledge. Yet the novel is not so diffuse that it could not be contained in a manageable number of scenes...
...glimpsed the first of the tall ships that were to impose Western so-called civilization on Hawaii; the ship's English captain, James Cook, mapped the island, which he spelled Mowee.* Though Hana can be reached in minutes by air, driving there is half the fun. The shoestring road, with 617 switchback bends and 56 one-way bridges, bumples through a jungle of bamboo, fern, maune loa vines, breadfruit, mango, banyan, banana, kukui and hau trees, perfumed by guava and wild ginger. Then, out of the forest and into the breeze, the white-knuckled driver arrives at the Hotel...
...captains Spence Fitzgibbons and Jim Dales and first-year mentor Bob Carr, the linksters will begin the early 25-hour road trip when they catch the Mass Pike around dinner time on Thursday...
...Alexander and his colleagues can survive the rigors of road-tripping, they'll be back up North for the traditional, season-opening tri-match against Tufts and Amherst...