Word: trek
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Richard E. Byrd, Ronne joined Byrd's 1933 expedition there as a radio operator and dogsled driver. Over the next 25 years, he returned to the South Pole eight times (thrice with his wife Edith, one of the first women to make the trip). On a 15-month trek in 1946-48, he disproved the notion that the continent was divided in two, and finished charting the Weddell Sea coast, the earth's last unsurveyed shore...
...season's two science-fiction pictures, Star Trek and The Black Hole, have been disappointments, but only by comparison with the inflated expectations of their backers. Star Trek opened first, 2% weeks before Christmas, when there were no other films being launched. "The first week it was outlandish," says Don Baker, vice president of advertising and promotion for Loews Theaters in New York. "It seemed as though almost all of the millions of U.S. trekkies were trying to get in at once. The problem was that this made the second week look...
...fact, the second week witnessed a 38% drop in receipts, but miraculously, the third week saw a 30% gain over the sagging second and the fourth a 26% jump above that. In its first 26 days, Star Trek brought in a total of $53 million. By ordinary standards, it is a blockbuster. But it went far over budget, finally costing Paramount Pictures more than $50 million to produce and promote; thus the film will have to gross between $75 million and $100 million before the studio makes its money back...
...professor who you thought was so "dynamic" reminding you in the flourish of his last lecture that "extension is not a word in my vocabulary." There is always the hapless search for the book, first in the upstairs catalogue, then in the bowels of the Union catalogue; the trek to Countway or Tozzer or some other library in the hinterland and, finally, the gaping hole on the shelf. The time spent on the second floor of the Coop, pawing the record racks in search of a disc that you don't really want...
...quickly became apparent that real power resided in the revolutionary komitehs that sprang up all over the country, and the komitehs took orders only from the 15-man Revolutionary Council headed by Khomeini (the names of its other members were long kept secret). Bazargan and his Cabinet had to trek to Qum for weekly lunches with Khomeini to find out what the Ayatullah would or would not allow...