Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clock ticked down, overtime went from a possibility to a likelihood. Let's see, we think, when was the last time the ECAC championship game went into overtime...? (sound of flipping through program)...not since 1963, when--no, it's not a typo--Harvard nipped Boston College, 4-3. So, We're up for it: one moment to settle everything...
...pressed buttons on his portable tape-recorder and said, to no one in particular, "one second...ok here it is." Conversation stopped as a crackly sound filled the subway car: "Less than three minutes to play...Surdam at center ice...up to Ground ... HESHOOTSHESCORES!!! Bob Gould puts UNH in the lead with 2:43 to go!" There were cheers on the Green Line from the UNH fans. Everyone else had to smile with them...
...network going all out to knock off the other two. The pyrotechnics from CBS included Rocky, the Grammy Awards show and Marathon Man. NBC fired off James Michener's Centennial, Backstairs at the White House, a six-hour remake of From Here to Eternity, American Graffiti and The Sound of Music. ABC, which now rules the ratings charts, disdained such vulgar showmanship, but, in fact, it threw in the heaviest salvo of all: the $16 million sequel to Roots, which two years ago drew the biggest audience of all time...
...George Lincoln Rockwell. As ratings go, however, it was a disappointment. Night 7, ABC got only 40% of the audience, compared with 32% for CBS's Celebrity Challenge of the Sexes, a kind of all-star potato sack race, and 30% for yet another yodel of The Sound of Music on NBC. Still, helped by its old-time serials and the great new hit of the season, Mork & Mindy, ABC, with Roots II, achieved the second-highest-rated week in television history, surpassed only by the week Roots I was aired in January 1977; indeed, an estimated 110 million...
...promised court action to stop the ban. But the EPA said it had no choice. Explained Deputy Administrator Barbara Blum: "The warning signals from the miscarriage study, the preponderance of strong animal test data and the low short-term economic impact compel emergency action. Taken together these facts sound an alarm...