Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growing U.S.-Soviet rivalry for naval power in the Indian Ocean has suddenly transformed the tiny coral atoll into a strategic scrap of real estate and catapulted it into a storm of controversy reaching from the Kremlin...
Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, the scholarly chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who is seeking his sixth term, this year faces the political scrap of his career. His opponent: popular Governor Dale Bumpers. The governor announced last week that he would challenge Fulbright in the Democratic primary...
...dull six-week job enlivened only by the occasional breakdown of the projector or a lunchtime basketball game, is a prelude for Simla's key off-season job: rewriting the offensive and defensive scripts. "To get the clutter out of our playbook," explains Shula, "we have to scrap plays that don't work. If we didn't do that, our quarterback might go into a huddle in a crucial situation, unknowingly pick a flawed play out of the playbook he has memorized, and we could lose." Counting variations on basic tactics, there are approximately 100 plays...
...Scrap Tristan and put on Tosca. At the Met-which has fielded three Tristans for an act apiece rather than switch operas for a single performance-it was a disastrous suggestion. Schuyler Chapin, Gentele's successor as manager, rejected the idea, hired a minor singer named Klara Barlow to sing Isolde, and pulled together cast and production...
...write fiction about the war; Fair Stood the Wind for France (1944), about a British bomber pilot shot down over French soil, was one of the outstanding results. Bates was best known in the U.S. for The Darling Buds of May (1958), a novel about the zany fruit-picking, scrap-dealing Larkin family that was made into the movie The Mating Game...