Word: treks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gain a second term. But in the biggest upset of Tuesday's gubernatorial races, he lost by less than a 1% margin to Democrat Joseph P. Teasdale, 40, a former prosecutor from Jackson County (which covers Independence and Kansas City). Known as "Walkin' Joe" after his unsuccessful trek around the state seeking the Democratic gubernatorial nomination four years ago, Teasdale hammered away at the Republican in debates and TV ads, painting him as a "corporate man" with ties to big-monied interests and a do-nothing chief executive "removed from the mainstream of life...
...almost totally rebuilt, he was happily back flying fighter missions. Later he was shot down while strafing German positions in Italy, and found himself stranded far behind enemy lines. Eagerly playing guerrilla, Smith fought with a band of Italian partisans for five months before beginning a 23-day trek across the Alps to British lines...
...bachelor's, master's and doctor's degrees-nearly double the annual level of ten years ago. During the same period, however, the number of professional, technical and managerial jobs in the U.S. has barely grown more than a third. How much longer graduating classes can trek into unemployment offices without a sense of outrage remains to be seen. It will surely take far less to radicalize our young today than at the time of the Great Depression...
After a four mile trek over sand hills, shrubbery, Fordham gneiss and rain showering the Bronx, the Harvard runners were still trailing the field coming up to Cemetery Hill, the aptly named final obstacle on the undulating course...
Your next best theatrical value is probably the Loeb Ex, mainly because it's free. You don't even have to trek all the way up to the Loeb the day before (as the ads suggest) to get tickets. Just get there half an hour before curtain, and stand in line. The Ex is so small that any seat is bound to be good...