Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Chafee's strong 800-meter run, finishing little more than a second behind talented Husky Mark Lech (1:53.3) and Chris Niceodemus's last second shoot-the-gap, second-place finish in the 400-meter run proved too little...
...first time since the early 1970s offered corn and cotton subsidies to farmers who reduce plantings, which will surely raise food prices. There is no excuse for subsidies, despite some farmers' noisy threats of "strike." Farm prices have risen 13.9% since last September, and some food prices will shoot through the roof this spring be cause foul weather has badly hurt harvests of Soviet wheat and Brazilian soybeans...
...DIDN'T LAST, this mainline no-cholesterol shoot-up in the hardening arteries of country music. Steve Goodman has paunched down into Chicago's home-grown favorite, writing witty little ditties without much punch. Jerry Jeff is falling prey to cirrhosis of the brain. John Prine's upcoming album offers the only hope in the bunch for a bucktooth overbite country record. And Jimmy Buffett, well, he said it four years ago in "A Brand New Country Star": "He's a hot roman candle from the Texas panhandle he can either go country...
...From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere." Thus spoke Dr. Seuss, and true enough. Novelist Erich Maria Remarque made a kindred point: "Not to laugh at the 20th century is to shoot yourself." Yet the sad fact is that mirth in the U.S. is neither what it once was nor what it might be. As early as 1968, in The Rise and Fall of American Humor, English Professor Jesse Bier solemnly declared that "we are in great part humorless as never before." Other humor experts, who cannily refuse to be associated with their opinions, believe...
...structuring the debate that way, Bok appeared to adopt a strategy of allowing core critics their say, and then rolling out the "big guns" on the Faculty to shoot down the anti-core arguments...