Word: tar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HOSANNAS to black babies were the keynote of The Globe's opinion page, the Boston Herald-American emerged with the "tar-baby" line. Court-ordered busing, the paper implied even on the front page, was the tar-baby that a capricious judge had left sitting on a street corner in Boston, and now decent citizens who had just happened to amble by were stuck with the fallacious responsibility of busing children. The citizens are the responsible people here, as if Garrity's order was a senseless test of a God-fearing, patriotic population, by directing an odious plague on their...
...clear now to thoughtful members of the literary apparat that a critic who praises an Iron Curtain writer does so at considerable risk to his reputation as a subtle fellow. Some variant of the skepticism now being directed at Solzhenitsyn is sure to tar the enthusiast. "A great soul, certainly," it will be said, "with great lumps on his head from those rubber truncheons, but a great writer ... ?" The message is stern: under an oppressive state, all artists may be persecuted, but not all those persecuted are artists...
...meet the threat, Levy contends, the major oil-importing nations must: 1) coordinate research and development of alternate sources of energy and agree to guarantee profitable prices to people who produce, say, oil from shale or tar sands; 2) work out a common program to build six-month stockpiles of oil and share imports among themselves if the exporters again curtail or shut off supplies; 3) agree that they will not try to get the cash to pay for oil by unduly pushing exports to and curtailing imports from each other; 4) especially important, develop coordinated programs to conserve energy...
...marathon is a frightening contest of wits between Shaw and speeding cars and trucks. On back roads, under a sultry sun, he frequently got enmired in melting tar. Also, everywhere, there are dogs, yelping and nipping at the rolling hero as if he were absconding with the Alpo. He carries a rosary in his left pocket. "I do pray a lot when I'm out there on the highways," he says. "Anything can happen out there." Vehicles are continually bearing down on him, and eluding them requires a special dexterity and alertness. Says Shaw: "Anyone who thinks...
Anyone who thinks there isn't enough oil to be found to increase production ought to research the estimates of oil available from Alaska, off-shore fields, tar sands, shale, coal, and old oil wells. The oil can be found if there is an incentive to find...