Word: specters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lines will need to borrow $56 billion by 1985 to replace their aging jets. Lenders will tend to favor the lines that stand to benefit the most from deregulation, meaning the bigger, richer carriers. Though the U.S. certainly needs more competition and fare flexibility in the air, the specter of unbridled price cutting and route grabbing frightens many financial experts, who fear that some lines will not be able to earn the returns needed to justify large loans. One airline financial officer calls the CAB'S free-enterprising Chairman Albert Kahn "an intellectual giant and a commercial idiot...
...serious woman athlete-even one who trains with weights-hardly faces the specter of turning into a Tarzan. The female body composition is only 23% muscle, in contrast to 40% for men. Dr. Jack Wilmore, president of the American College of Sports Medicine, has found that women, because they have low levels of the androgenic hormones that enlarge muscles, can increase their strength 50% to 75% with no increase in muscle bulk. Witness Virginia Wade, sleek and slender, who can serve a tennis ball at 92 m.p.h...
...advertising color-TV sets in major newspapers. Price: $520 in hard-to-come-by hard currency, the equivalent of more than three months' wages for the average citizen. The event even moved the political weekly Polityka to a rare spoof on the Communist Manifesto. Cracked an editorial: "The specter of football is haunting Poland...
...veracity for himself." In an era of recycled journalism and package publishers who may be soon calling books "entertainment systems," everybody aboard The Train Robbers appears to have it both ways. Even the reader, who can spook himself with the thought that the SS rides again or ignore this specter and still get a doughty account of a daring exploit...
That night as she is in bed, making love rather absentmindedly to her live husband, an oaf who performs his marital duties like a man trying to park a bread van, the lecherous specter reappears to watch. The pharmacist can't see him, but Dona Flor can. Her consternation is splendid. As she rolls her eyes at him in anger and embarrassment, he sits cross-legged atop a large wardrobe chest beating time with his hands on his naked thighs and laughing like a demon...