Word: roger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...backfield, halfbacks Tom Floyd and Roger Strandberg do most of the work. Floyd has picked up 273 yards in just 46 carries for an average of almost 6 yards per try, while Strandberg has roughed out 247 in 54 carries for a 4.6 average...
...French composer/musician Pierre Henry. Henry often incorporates "natural sounds" (e.g. the creaking and slamming of a cabin door, or the sound of waves crashing against a sea wall) into his music. These sounds are distorted by means of electronic devices to acheive a series of novel effects. Floyd guitarist Roger Waters uses this same technique in "Welcome to the Machine" to suggest a futuristic machine blaring cacophonosly...
...Roger Conrow Indian Rocks Beach...
Nonsense. What is far more likely is that at 85, Dame Agatha decided to enjoy one more triumph. If Curtain is not quite the revolutionary mystery that The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was in 1926, it is a major tour de force. Once again Christie has twisted the classic form in which she writes, and has come up with something new. Curtain is a shocker. It will cause intense, benign controversy and become an enormous bestseller. It is to be hoped that Queen Elizabeth has more ribbons in her closet to decorate this enduring and lonely symbol of British vitality...
...wait for the right moment, and then, nonchalantly (so they won't think this is why you called), you ask, "Could you put the radio up to the phone and let the hear a minute of the Dodger game?" Soon Vin Scully's "pleasant baritone voice," as Roger Kahn describes it in The Boys of Summer, comes through the earpiece Vin Scully, the best broadcaster in baseball, who doesn't barter in cliches like "That hall had eyes on it" (a favorite of Sox announcer Ken Harrelson), or "You have to get hits to win ball games" (Kubek/Gowdy). Scully coins...