Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After this loss, the Crimson could have tied the match if two of its NCAA finalists could have won their first round bouts. Fencing simultaneously on the two separate strip?. Geza Tatrallay at epee, and Tom Keller, at the foil, needed to keep their cool to win. Tatrallay was ahead 3-1 against his opponent, let up, and lost, 5-3. Keller needed a touch to win, failed to make it, and lost...
...townspeople nearly lynch the sensitive, suffering, shell-shocked major.) The town, in secret convention which we are mercifully spared, puts the finger on Rosy Ryan, whose every aspiration apes the upper classes, and who moreover has been sleeping with the enemy. So they go to her home, strip her naked, cut off her hair, and slash her face (though not permanently, since she is played by Robert Bolt's wife). The film's next-to-last sequence has Rosy, husband Mitchum, and priest walk down a deserted street to the hisses and jeers of the safely invisible inhabitants of Kilgarry...
...issues had become intertwined in a Gordian knot of the Senate's devising. The welfare reform, trade quotas and Social Security increase had all been meshed into a single bill by the Senate Finance Committee. Its chairman, Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, finally moved last week to strip the bill of all except the Social Security provisions-against the will of leaders of both parties. The Administration wanted all three programs and figured that Social Security was must legislation that would piggyback the other two into law. Democratic leaders, opposed to the trade quotas but willing to accept welfare reform...
Despite such pressures, however, "the decade of the environment" got off to a good start last year and the pace seems unlikely to slacken. Citizen groups have already identified 1971's targets, including strip-mining companies that destroy the landscape and cause water pollution. Washington, for its part, plans to set new noise regulations on industrial equipment and will press for new bans against dumping wastes in the oceans. What 1970 proved is that the environment issue cannot be dismissed as a fad. By changing national values, it may well spur a profound advance in U.S. maturity and harmony with...
Auger was 49 when a heart attack forced him to retire in 1943. He left Stockton, bought a long, narrow 51 acre strip of land running between the shore and the coastal highway south of Santa Barbara, and started to work on his town. He built a roadside assortment of children's delights: merry-go-rounds, a zoo, a miniature train, donkey rides, toy stores, snack shops-all painted red and white and encrusted with Christmas decorations. Above the largest shop in the village, a 20-foot concrete Santa, his landmark, protruded from the chimney. Auger presided over...