Word: tire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Anti-Tire Forces. Not everyone has admired Heidelberger's Mount Baldy. The Andover town board, charging that the tires had become a breeding ground for rats and mosquitoes, repeatedly tried to force him to get rid of them. The state, worried about a fire hazard, once demanded that he bury his tires individually, 2 ft. deep and 4 ft. apart. "There's not enough land in the state to bury all my tires," snorted Heidelberger...
...expected." To Oklahoma Republican Party Chairman Rick Shelby, Nixon was "candid and forthright about the mistakes he obviously made. We saw a side of Nixon we'd never seen before." Norfolk Tavern Owner Foster Strickland summed up the mixed feelings: "If he had a flat tire, I'd stop and help him fix it, but I don't think I would ever vote...
...number of companies showed dramatic advances. B.F. Goodrich's earnings leaped 87%, largely because of strong tire sales. General Telephone & Electronics' net was up 53%, mainly because the rising value of the Canadian dollar made profits of its Canadian operation, when converted into U.S. dollars, take a big jump. American Airlines turned a $ 1.4 million profit for the quarter, v. an $8.8 million loss for the same period last year. It was the line's best first quarter in nine years, and it mirrored the recovery of the U.S. airline industry generally as higher fares, stable fuel...
...valley, taking walks to look at the animals and the crops and trying to ingest as much of the tranquility as my cells would absorb. I thought briefly about re-inviting myself there for part of a summer. Perhaps someday I will. But right now I know I would tire of the timeless hills and mountain brooks and would eventually wring the neck of a rooster that woke me on a sleepy Sunday. Summer camping never managed to accustom me to outhouses; I will never adjust to life without steaming baths. But when we drove to the bus stop...
Rock Hill finished last in the first half of the split season, and Anderson imagined a lifetime among tire kickers on Ventura Boulevard. ("Would you believe that people actually do that? Would you believe they buy new cars because of the way a tire feels against a shoe.") Anderson drove Rock Hill to a pennant in the second half of the summer of'65. With one exception-the 1971 Reds-no team managed by.Sparky Anderson has since finished lower than second place...