Word: station
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's family mingled with the crowd. His eight-year-old daughter Amy, who runs a 100-a-glass lemonade stand on the side, raced around barefoot and carefree. Brother Billy, a Georgia "good ole boy" who runs the family warehouse and a local service station, bantered with the press about the words Cast Iron emblazoned on the T shirt that stretched over his developing paunch. Explained Billy: "It's my CB radio handle. Everybody calls me that because when the fellas come by my place, I'll drink whatever they're drinking -Scotch, bourbon...
...been warned to leave the country within 48 hours, and they did, with U.N. help. The Argentine government's disclaimers of responsibility sounded somewhat hollow. The lengthy caravan had passed through downtown Buenos Aires and one of the U.N. hotels was less than a block from a police station...
...superlative performance in the show is that of Jack Gwillim as Deputy-Governor Danforth, the symbol of political authority and religious certitude. He does not appear until the third act, but from then on he really takes command of the stage whenever he is present, as befits his station in life. Although Danforth thinks himself a surrogate for God, Miller describes him as a person "of some humor." Gwillim manages to convey touches of humor without ever undermining Danforth's sense of infallibility--an exemplary piece of work...
Every morning for the past three months, Seychelles islanders tuning in the country's only radio station have heard an imposing roll of kettledrums and the recitation of a proud though singularly infelicitous piece of doggerel: "Independence is a sheet of virgin snow/ On which our footsteps will surely show...
...Near the top of the world, at Alaska's remote Campion Air Force Station, two three-story radar domes have been painted white, with blue and red stars...