Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three tiny chapels is Modern Fundamentalist. What distinguishes the houses of worship is their mobility. Semitrailers with lighted crosses on their tractor cabs, they belong to Transport for Christ, a nomadic nondenominational mission to the truckers of North America. The mobile chapels can usually be found parked smack amidst a clutter of oil drums, automobiles and other semitrailer rigs at spots like the Mid-Continent Truck Stop in Mesquite, Texas, or the Mass. 10 Truck Stop outside Boston...
...GBCs, which kick off this afternoon at Boston College, fall smack in the middle of the heaviest track week for most of the northeast's schools, and Harvard is no exception. The Crimson thinclads, having just completed back-to-back victories over Princeton and Yale, will still have to compete in Friday's Penn relays after today's rigorous contest...
...touches, the mannerisms, but it's a far cry from writing a total script," he demurs, at the same time putting the finishing "touches" to an eleven-page scene he has just written into an upcoming show. Falk wrote Columbo's often-quoted shoe gambit. Smack in the middle of questioning his suspect, he stops suddenly to ask: "How much did you pay for those shoes?" After a pause, the nonplussed suspect answers: "Forty dollars." "What I wanted to ask," confides Columbo, "is do ya' have any idea where I can get a pair like that...
...farmers of Arkansas, the fact that Harvard University and a number of New York and Boston banks can decide to put what might very well be the world's worst single source of pollution right smack in the middle of their fields is a little hard to take. The thirty-five farmers who met in the school house decided that something had to be done about the power plant, and so they organized themselves as a chapter of the only group which has had any success in fighting for the rights of low and moderate income Arkansas, a group called...
...hole left in the Egyptian treasury by the closing of the canal. For all its promise, though, the pipeline seemed as unattainable as permanent peace in the Middle East-until last week, when the Egyptian government announced that an American firm had been hired to build it. Smack in the middle of the deal was Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc., a big American investment banking firm of the kind that militant Arabs have often denounced as instruments of American imperialism...