Word: rods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...care much for me"), would take her out of school on trips whenever Army transportation looked tempting. Her father bought a 300-acre spread, Rising Wolf Ranch, in Montana, and Dita spent summers there as a child. "Dad thought nothing of giving me a gun and a fishing rod and telling me to go off for a couple of weeks. I learned to be very independent." He retired from the Army in grand style in 1930, she claims. "He hit his commanding general over the head with a riding crop at the officer's club-we never did know...
...devices now being offered to fed-up Manhattanites are inexpensive ($5 and under) tear-gas sprays, available in many drugstores. Often combined with dye that marks an attacker for police identification, these sprays come disguised as everything from cigarette lighters to lipsticks. There is also the $9.98 electric shock rod, a gadget that operates on four ordinary flashlight batteries and, according to the firm that markets it, releases "enough power to stop an angry bull in its tracks." The rod is more likely to prove shocking to the user when it fails to deter the attacker...
While girls outdo boys verbally, they often lag behind in solving analytical problems, those that require attention to detail. Girls seem to think "globally," responding to situations as a whole instead of abstracting single elements. In the "rod and frame test," for instance, a subject sits in a dark room before a luminous rod inside a slightly tilted frame, and is asked to move the rod to an upright position. Boys can separate the rod visually from the frame and make it stand straight; girls, misled by the tipped frame, usually adjust the rod not to the true vertical...
...still compete for larger purses, and the top men still win more than their female counterparts. Though no U.S. male tennis player matched Billie Jean King's earnings of $117,000 last year, Australian Rod Laver collected $292,000. In women's golf, last year's top moneymaker was Kathy Whitworth, with $43,500; in men's golf, 58 men made more than that, and Jack Nicklaus topped everybody with $244,490. In bowling, Patty Costello led the women last year with $5,275; John Petraglia led the men, with more than...
...album he has opted for ballads instead of folk music that is geared to some prevailing national spirit. It is not entirely fair to compare Mary with the others since she does not write any of her own material. In recording songs by Elton John or by Rod McKuen. Mary has also been attracted to popular music, away from the folk sound of earlier years...