Word: skid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...willing to take the big risk to get the big reward and knows how to use technology and the tax laws. Starting with a $1,500 investment in an Oklahoma oil-drilling venture, he has amassed a personal fortune recently estimated at $480 million. Though the stock-market skid has somewhat deflated his holdings, he does not have to worry where his next oil well is coming from. At 43, he is a big bear of a man-6 ft. 3 in., 230 lbs.-with the hard blue eyes of a riverboat gambler. He has a strong _ fondness...
...hard shot makes the ball skid on that surface," Barnaby claims, "and both Bill Washauer and Dave Fish needed time to become accustomed to returning the power serve that the Williams men were using...
...There are millions of them!" gasped a policeman in rural Ouyen, deep in Australia's richest grain and grazing country. "You can't drive at more than 20 miles an hour, because if you had to brake, you'd skid and turn over. There are that many of them on the road." Not only on the roads but in wheat paddocks, barns and pantries across huge stretches of Victoria and New South Wales, hordes of field mice now form what one farmer calls "a moving carpet." The rampaging rodents, product of a rare combination...
...construction material for highways. One 58-foot-long test strip of glasphalt pavement, outside the Owens-Illinois Technical Center in Toledo, has held up well during the worst winter in years; engineers reported virtually no cracking, rippling or holes in the surface and gave it a top rating for skid resistance...
...Demara, now 47, has had previous, if less official roles as Trappist monk and Skid Row evangelist. ··· Country music's Woodward Maurice ("Tex") Ritter (Hillbilly Heaven, Boll Weevil) threw a ten-gallon hat into the ring and announced his designs on the U.S. Senate seat held by Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore. The old cowboy would be no Capitol Hillbilly: he has a degree in political science from the University of Texas and once studied law at Northwestern. As for the campaign, Tex says firmly: "I'll discuss the issues. Of course, I'll always...