Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only a few years ago, when toy companies were smaller, their financial health was notoriously erratic because they rode up and down with the latest fads. Example: Rubik's Cube, which lasted only one season, 1981-82. Now the toy firms want to grow large enough so that they can take part in several trends at once and get a smoother ride. Hasbro, Mattel and Coleco, the No. 3 toymaker, will account for about 35% of this year's industry revenues, compared with less than 15% five years ago. But these big firms now compete with a manic rivalry that...
...weren't awake for the first match," team member Marcie Rode said. "We are not good at morning matches, or at long drives. We just didn't play like a team...
Little red devils rode their broomsticks past swarms of He-man clones yesterday in the Yard, where several hundred local school children took part in the third annual Freshman Halloween Party...
...Israeli resort of Nahariya in 1979; the four Israelis who died included a four-year-old girl whose brains were dashed against a rock. Abbas has a considerable sense of selfimportance: during his days as a guerrilla commander in the P.L.O. state-within-a-state in southern Lebanon, he rode around Beirut in a Mercedes with as many as eight bodyguards. Well before the Achille Lauro hijacking, he had a penchant for bizarre and ineffective operations. In 1981 he tried to infiltrate raiders across the Lebanese border into Israel by hot-air balloon and hang glider; they were killed...
Roosevelt and his men rode a scow downriver for three days, pushing through the ice jams. They came upon the thieves' camp and captured them without a fight. A practical man would have obeyed the custom of the territory and hanged the three right there. Some Dakotans were mystified by the course Roosevelt chose. He struggled on for ten more days, downriver and cross- country in brutal cold, standing guard through the nights, until he found a sheriff. He handed his prisoners over to the law. Much exertion over a rowboat. Much exertion, even manic bravado, in behalf...