Word: though
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Something of the sort seems to have happened to the LaRozas. Perhaps lulled by the too warm water and a bit of alcohol, they probably fell asleep minutes after settling into the spa. The sleep turned into coma, the coma to death. Though the deaths are the first to be attributed to hot-tub heatstroke, they are not likely to have been the only ones to occur so far. Says Coroner Kornblum: "God only knows how many cases have gone unreported...
...appreciably from the gas shortage: attendance at Williamsburg, Va., 158 miles from Washington, B.C., has actually been up, and Disneyland, which is only 27 miles from metropolitan Los Angeles, also reports increased patronage. Businesses in areas that are more isolated, like Las Vegas, the Florida Everglades and Lake Tahoe, though, have suffered. Overall weekend automobile travel in the U.S. is down about 15% compared with this time a year...
...Washington outlet for three weeks. "I was going to run it until we lost it," Bradlee fumed. "When the Star started promoting it, I said the hell with it." He reported that Cartoonist Trudeau, who avoids interviews, was not consulted. Said Bradlee: "He told me he felt as though he had been traded from the Redskins to the San Diego Padres...
...Though the armed services are now about 7% female, a 2% Government quota on women kept the military virtually all male for years. Said Eleanor Smeal, president of the National Organization for Women: "We have now been given the double whammy. Women have been told they're not wanted in the armed forces and then that for the rest of their lives, they can be passed over in favor of men who are less qualified for government service...
Russian, in fact, bound them together and eventually broke them apart. This theme is the most consistent in their extended correspondence and reads as though two worldly gentlemen were comparing notes on a shared mistress. Yet between the lines about metrics and grammar grinds a mutual competitiveness...