Word: skidded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mostly by selling his blood. Annie Peters, 17, lives off the refuse in Berkeley garbage cans and occasionally peddles dope. Though their names have been changed, their stories are very real and typify the plight of what two social scientists at the University of California in Berkeley call the Skid...
Expo 74 is devoted to "celebrating tomorrow's fresh new environment" -and environmental planning had to begin at home. A tangle of railroad tracks, trestles, unsightly warehouses and a Skid Road in a 55-acre central city area were cleared for the Expo 74 site. Ramshackle structures on two islands in the Spokane River were also razed, and the polluted river was cleaned up so that now, surging green and foamy through the fair site, it is a major at traction, complete with falls that can be crossed by overhead gondolas...
Both fighters are now confronted with the slide into the twilight of their careers. Past 30 years old, the watershed of many a fighting career, neither can afford a further tarnishing of the record to hasten the skid from the top. And with an awesome new champ holding court today as king of the heavyweights, tonight's Ali-Frazier is a battle of the "once-weres" not the "here-and-nows...
...weather could also become a factor, as the Astro-turf on Franklin Field becomes slippery when wet and the ball tends to skid. Monro said the game will speed up under such conditions and hurt Harvard's chances...
Alcoholism landed Lowry in the Skid Row ward at New York's Bellevue Hospital, a searing experience that became the subject of his novella Lunar Caustic. He was also jailed and deported from Mexico, the scene of Under the Volcano, a novel that took ten years, at least four revisions, and the love, patience and help of Lowry's second wife, Margerie Bonner, a former Hollywood actress. Given Day's cool, unenthusiastic and quite accurate assessment of Lowry's poetry and stories, it comes as something of a surprise to find him pulling...