Word: strews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clearly, Stevens presented the court with a grand opportunity to strike a blow for helpless televiewers who get bombarded constantly with sales pitches that the networks callously strew through televised movies. The judge's decision, in fact, seemed to be heading in that direction. "It is true," said Judge Richard L. Wells, "that the effect of the commercial interruptions was to lessen, to decrease, to disturb, to interrupt, and to weaken the mood, effect or continuity and the audience involvement-and therefore some of the artistry of the film." But then, reversing course, Wells found NBC not guilty...
...time bicycle racing is no sport for the squeamish. Perilous and punishing, it promises lung-searing fatigue, bone-smashing crashes, and the kind of nasty guerrilla warfare among competitors better employed in the jungle. Racers have been known to ram each other off mountain curves, to strew tacks in the road behind them, to urinate into the wind so that it blows back in the eyes of their opponents. So taxing is the sport that few champions enjoy a long reign...