Word: sapping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spaces" features John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Chick Corea. But he's forgotten anything he might have learned from them. Reknowned once for his lightening notebursts and technical fire, Coryell has settled back into a soft-pedaled brand of music which is only a string chorus away from being supermarket sap. July 31-August 3 at the jazz Workshop...
...group of mostly liberal thinkers, including Economist Wassily Leontief, Investment Banker Robert V. Roosa and United Auto Workers' President Leonard Woodcock, have called for the establishment of a U.S. office of national economic planning. They have in mind not a stiff bureaucracy that would sap freedoms by handing down directives, but a forward-looking group of several hundred scientists and technicians (and a few economists) who would study the future of the U.S. economy much as a savvy company studies its market. Relying on such factors as population trends and the likely availability of resources, they would try to estimate...
...papers, Glikes came off as a sap, a sweet guy who shared a few tender moments with Kearns until Goodwin swept onto the scene and left his nose out of joint. Kearns and Goodwin weren't so flattered by the newspapers' stage directions, but they both stressed Glikes's ingenuous attachment as a real wrench in the editorial works while Kearns had been with Basic...
...French cops know something Doyle does not. They are aware that he has been set up, that the French and American police forces are using him as a decoy to flush out Charnier (Fer nando Rey), the connection. The plan gets messy, however, when Charnier and his people sap Doyle in the street and drag him off to a seedy hotel, where for three long weeks they shoot him full of dope...
...game of a Jimmy Connors or a Margaret Court might be expected to sap too much energy for consistent performances. But the quality of play seldom seems to lose its edge...