Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...message posted in the roll call room reads: "Summer uniforms as of Sunday 28 May 1989"--even now, after midnight, balmy weather makes the winter uniforms a difficult burden to bear. A lieutenant, as the graveyard-shift officers get ready to roll, gives the warning, "Let's be careful out there...
...SUMMER...
...Summer of '49 is much enhanced by the author's ruminations about the era. He captures both the glamour and the quaintness of the late '40s, when the corner bar, the movie palace and the ball park were the major entertainment centers. The new age of expansion clubs and megasalaries was coming on fast. Though TV was in the wings, radio ruled a fan's life. Teams still traveled by train and, in Halberstam's view, the clubs lost priceless cohesiveness when they boarded airplanes. For these old-timers, alcohol was the prevailing addiction. Red Sox manager Joe McCarthy hectored...
...general response of the faculty to the want of a dean to get advice is that that is exactly his prerogative," said Brendan A. Maher, a member of the MacFarquhar Committee and the Committee on Resources. This summer, Maher will become dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...summer travel season gets under way, many Americans are suddenly feeling nostalgic for the airfares they paid just a vacation or two ago. Since January, ticket prices have risen an average of more than 15%, inducing a form of sticker shock in consumers who have grown accustomed to deep discounts in the decade since airline deregulation. But the kind of cutthroat competition that produced those fares is fading fast. After a severe shake-out in which some 214 airlines disappeared or merged into hardier carriers, the industry is concentrated in fewer hands than ever before. Gone from the runways...