Word: tote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...royal government provided no housing materials and no food beyond a few rangy cattle. Patients had to tote water from a spring a mile away. The arrival of Father Joseph Damien de Veuster changed all that. He inspired and encouraged the colonists to build better houses and a primitive hospital on the sheltered side of the peninsula and to install a mile-long water line. How and where or when Damien contracted leprosy, which caused his death in 1889, can never be known. The disease can have an incubation period of ten or more years and the priest might have...
...wandered off. The tote board blinked The kid had brought a long shot home second. A few fans stood in the rain applauding. "Thank you, Stevie," someone called. "Thank you very much." The tone was gratitude approaching supplication...
...what to do when he gets his hands on a race track's cash. Take the money and run. When New Jersey's Garden State Park caught fire in the middle of a racing afternoon, the running reached unprecedented proportions. Parimutuel clerks stuffed paper sacks, attache cases, tote bags and pockets with more than $400,000 and headed for safety-and home...
...MIDDLE AGED will, more than ever, tote society's Sisyphean boulder. They will not need to spend as much time and money on so many offspring, but they will increasingly have new dependents-the old. By 2020, it is estimated that only one out of three Americans will be a taxpayer, and that liened group should be more heavily composed of the middle aged. In contrast to the whiz-kid executive syndrome of the '70s-a direct result of the baby boom-the reins of power will revert to older hands. For the middle-age, middle-management sector...
...described by their occupants as, bumper cars. NBC's 336-sq.-ft. map of the country looked like a visual aid for Hollywood Squares: each state took on a hue (red for Carter, blue for Ford) as its winner was projected. All three networks abandoned the traditional mechanical tote boards for computerized video display screens. They were not that much of an improvement; the NBC election team was issued magnifying glasses to help them read the returns...