Word: treks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Star Trek: The Motion Picture--Surely the highlight of the Hollywood Christmas season is this week's release of the long-awaited Star Trek movie. At more that $49 million, Gene Roddenberry's epic-to-be is one of the most expensive films ever made. But the high price tag is for a good cause--a guaranteed audience of devoted trekkies has been waiting for this one for ten years. They're selling reserved seats in most theaters, but if you bribe the doorman, you're bound...
Despite a few early season injury problem, the squad seems poised for the long trek to national supremacy, which starts today agains Bowdoin, Brown, Penn and Williams will join Princeton and Yale in offering stern tests...
Under a steady downpour, several hundred mourners chanted and carried posters along the mile-and-a-half trek to a city-owned cemetery...
...country soaked in blood, devastated by war, and its people are starving to death. Every day numbed witnesses to the appalling tragedy that has consumed Cambodia trek across the border into Thailand. Stumbling on reed-thin legs through the high elephant grass that grows along the frontier, they form a grisly cavalcade of specters, wrapped in black rags. Many are in the last stages of malnutrition, or are ravaged by such diseases as dysentery, tuberculosis and malaria. Perhaps the most pathetic images of all are those of tearful, exhausted mothers cradling hollow-eyed children with death's-head faces, their...
...human craving for numbers tells a good deal about man kind. It is both sign and cause of man's long trek from the days of one, two, three, many. It can be taken as a symptom of exuberant joy in the quantity and multiplicity of things. Still, the dizzy acceptance of those truly incomprehensible figures might also be construed as a vicarious variation of the old Faustian game: the yearning to know the unknowable...