Word: triangular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soaring competitions are faster, more serious affairs. The pace builds to 120 m.p.h. or more over a triangular course, as the pilots vie for world or national records for speed. "They tend to be introverted, highly individualistic and sure of themselves," says U.S. National Champion George Moffat, 46, a New Jersey schoolteacher. "When they are in the air, they are completely involved. I figure if you haven't made an important decision in the last minute, you are loafing. The air is always trying to tell you something. It is a matter of experience to find out what...
...says Museum Director Paul Smith, "and we must minimize our possessions." Hence his home-furnishings display concentrates on items that can be used for more than one purpose or are easily stacked and stowed. Sleeping bags are brightly adorned and embroidered to serve as wall hangings between camping trips. Triangular wool pieces can be spread out as floor covering or piled up as low seats. A lamp inflates like a balloon. A combination writing table and bulletin board can be folded down to a rectangle only three inches thick. There are dining-room sets that collapse into practically nothing...
TIME has learned that the third version is the accurate one, and moreover that the deal fell through. According to sources close to the case, triangular negotiations took place between Agnew representatives and officials in the White House and the Justice Department. What Agnew's men proposed was a simple exchange. If he stepped down as Vice President, the Government would not attempt to prosecute...
...from Rome that Palladio got his most typical device: the temple-like portico in front of his buildings supporting a triangular pediment. He had seen it on temples like the Pantheon; in an odd but characteristic misapprehension, Palladio guessed that this stately entrance had come from the lost dwellings of antiquity. "I thought it most convenient," he explained, "to begin with the houses of private persons, as thinking it reasonable to believe that these in time gave rise to public edifices." So if the temple was a magnified house, a house could look like a temple. No solution could have...
Lacrosse, as one aficionado puts it, is "basketball played on a football field with a club and a slow whistle." The ten-man teams are constantly on the move, passing and catching the hard rubber ball in the triangular nylon net at the end of their sticks. The game puts a premium on speed, deception and the kind of guts it takes to run a gauntlet of flying sticks and wing the ball at the 6-ft.-sq. goal at 100 m.p.h...