Word: starter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lake. From there, they rowed better than two miles to the foot of a snow-splotched mountain on the western shore, hacked out the underbrush, laid down a floor of pine boughs, and put up their tent. By nightfall they had a campfire blazing (disdaining such backyard aids as starter fuel), and ate corn roasted in the husk, ash-baked potatoes, hamburgers, cold beer (iced in the lake) and hot coffee...
These three assorted craft patrolling the waters of Lake Texoma last week belonged to the Texas navy, fastest-growing sport fleet in the country. A late starter in the nationwide boating boom, Texas is now intent on becoming the top boating state in the U.S. Though national marine sales are down 14% from last year, boat sales in Texas are up 42%, outboard motor sales 55%. One out of every eight Texas families now owns a boating rig (national average: one family out of twelve...
...battery-powered shopping cart for supermarkets, made by Technibilt Corp., equipped with two deadman's switches (so baby won't drive off on his own), which rolls along at 1½ m.p.h. so long as the shopper keeps the starter buttons depressed. Price: about $150 a cart...
...works takes its toll. "There are times." says Elston wearily, "when the physical strain is such that I just can't pitch." Still, Fireman Elston has no desire to quit the bullpen for the regular rotation of a starting pitcher. "I don't want to be a starter," he explains. "I'm a success in the job I'm doing...
...gaudy, snub-snouted racers that roared past the fluttering starter's flag in last week's Indianapolis 500 rolled on identical Firestone tires and were powered by identical 350-h.p. Meyer-Drake Offenhauser engines.* In the family feud that followed, what counted were the driver's skill, the speed of his pit crew-and pure luck...