Word: tiredly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...15th is also grandiose and tire some, a big, empty balloon of a symphony. Shostakovich makes all the right orchestral gestures. Snare drums tap away energetically. Muted trumpets wail balefully from some nostalgic never-never land. The first cello sings a sad song. At the proper climactic moments, the strings and brass saw away at each other like legions at war. Yet gesture is just about all there...
...list also includes permanent stairwell lights locks for basement doors between buildings and alarm checks for tire exit doors...
Easy, thought Pullman at first. He would simply give them to Fairfax County for landfill. "We're all sympathy," said the county engineer. "But tires don't make good material. Unless they're chopped up, they keep coming to the surface after being buried." It just so happens that the county does not have a tire-shredding machine, and would charge Pullman 50? per tire to remove them...
Pullman soon grew desperate. He discovered that the county's air-quality laws forbid burning tires and that the "carcasses," as they are called, were much too old to give away to any tire-recapping firm. It occurred to him to pay the $300 fine and turn the tires over to the county. But the local judge has suspended the fine because the county does not know what to do with the tires either. "Everything I've looked into is illegal or expensive," sums up Pullman...
...tendency, sometimes justifiable, to credit victory to the car rather than the driver. Fittipaldi has proved that he can win even with autos that lack a racer's edge. Several days before the Monza race, a truck carrying his newest Lotus-Ford Formula 1 racer blew a tire and threw the car into a pepper patch and out of the race. Mechanics managed to patch up a leaking gas tank in Fittipaldi's back-up car scant minutes before the race began...