Word: sand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There are almost sand traps in some place," Meyer added. Van Cortland's natural affinities for golfing as opposed to running were perceived quite a long time ago, as the first municipal golf course in the country was laid out there...
...they are rather more numerous, dear boy, than you might think--would not. They take no chances, you see. They report en masse only when the sure thing is at hand. They do not begin to circle until the footsteps stagger and the body starts to sink upon the sand. They are rarely wrong, dear boy... --Edwin O'Connor, The Last Hurrah...
Bulldozing a trench four meters (13 ft.) deep, he found several distinct breaks in the strata of sand, silt, gravel and peat that had been deposited on the bottom of the marsh over the centuries. Each break represented a sudden shift of at least a meter or two between the land masses on opposite sides of the fault-unmistakable signs of a major earthquake. Using radioactive-carbon dating techniques to determine the age of the dead organic material in the peat layers, he has now determined that the quakes occurred around...
Southern Florida's Gold Coast, a narrow strip of sun-drenched sand and aging hotels that stretches north from Miami Beach, has fallen on bad times: the beaches have been slipping into the Atlantic and the tourists are slipping north to Disney World and south to Caribbean casinos. So some of the area's businessmen have been pressing hard for the legalization of casino gambling, a matter voters will decide in a Nov. 7 referendum...
...come down strongly for or against affirmative action. But the Court's wishy-washiness, combined with the fact that no Harvard graduate program except the Med School has a special minority admissions structure, meant that the Bakke decision hit the University's graduate admissions like a pebble plopping into sand...