Word: tides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then Pompan turned the tide. Staying back at the baseline more often and serving powerfully, Pompan first pulled ahead with a service ace, then broke serve as a Robinson backhand went wide of the left baseline. With Robinson making more frequent errors and Pompan directing the ball repeatedly to the Quaker's limited backhand, the second set went to Pompan 6-1 after another service...
...Carter Administration's wage-price guidelines were beset by a tide of woe last week. While the nation's long-haul trucking slowed drastically, representatives of the industry and the striking Teamsters remained unable to agree on a new contract that came near to meeting the Government's "voluntary" limit of 7% in annual wage and benefit increases. At the same time, a walkout by United Airlines machinists, who are also seeking a guideline-busting settlement, grounded all flights of the U.S.'s largest air carrier and forced the layoff of more than 13,000 pilots...
...China really on the beach now, out of range of the cosmopolitan tide? What do they signify, those few Chinese devotees of the Western stage? The Cultural Revolution snuffed them out, after their short and lonely life....But in their insignificance, their restriction to the periphery of the Chinese world, is their significance. The loneliness of these dramatists in China is like China's in the world at large, a China sitting solitary, her ties back to the Chinese past attenuated, her bridges across to the alien present barred...The provincialism of the culture of the Cultural Revolution...
...between a 14,000-acre cattle ranch and the sandy half-moon of Hamoa Beach. Manager Tony de Jetley, an urbane Englishman who is married to a beautiful Hawaiian curiously named Alberta, enumerates 69 regular activities for hotel guests and their children; they range from frond weaving and night tide-pool fishing to breakfast cookouts and quarter-horse riding through terrain often photographed for Marlboro ads. Some families return to Hana as faithfully as Maui's whales. Charles Lindbergh, who lived for seven years with his wife Anne in Hana, is now buried there. Near by are the Seven...
...change the wording so that there might be a conference next year if people thought it wise. But resentment and grumbling was rising in the ranks. The organizers put a new chairman in charge of the meeting to keep order, but he couldn't stem the rebellious tide. Eventually, delegates tabled the whole idea in disgust, thereby leaving the question unresolved and saying, in effect, "If you guys want a new organization to play with, go set one up yourself...