Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Likewise on Friday. If you find something good, call me up (collect, of course) and tell me about it. Don't call me at 11 a.m. because I'll be busy taking a test then...
...outcome of the energy bill is going to be, above all, a test of presidential leadership. If Carter was too confident when the Senate first took up the issue, he certainly is not relaxing now. At his weekly meeting with congressional leaders, Carter told them bluntly that he -and they-will be judged by the public more on the final energy package than on anything else this year. He praised the House leaders for being "courageous" in their action, but said the Senate was moving "in a very costly direction." The current Senate legislation, he warned, would render impossible...
...government at this time and not earlier? Yadin, after the D.M.C. membership council voted in Jerusalem to join the coalition, predicted an "approaching emergency" in relations between Israel and the U.S. Said he: "I hope I'll be proven wrong, but we're now facing the toughest test we've faced since 1948. We must help the government change the economy and solve social problems-or else we won't survive." Cynics detected another possible motive: Yadin, as Deputy Premier, will now be in a better position to succeed Begin should the ailing Premier...
...test of reaction time and muscle is also involved. Tom Buckley, 49, a writer for the New York Times, spends his lunch hours playing Space Mission at a Broadway arcade. One of New York City's most diligent pin pushers, Buckley addresses the machine in the classic stance. With body about 1½ ft-away from the cabinet, one foot slightly ahead of the other, weight leaning on the arms with index finger on the flipper button, he pulls the shooter gently and watches the ball rebound off the top arch. "This game rewards concentration, mastery of the technique...
...even print unpublished verse of no particular distinction. In the end, the book seems too late with too little. But its main shortcoming is a failure to render the only Dylan Thomas that really matters-the maker of pagan word music that can still pass the A.E. Houseman power test by raising the hairs on the back of the listener's neck. - R.Z. Sheppard