Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last two sets. Chaikovsky, playing despite a shoulder injury and serving half-speed to avoid aggravating the injury, said afterwards the shoulder had not bothered him too much. The injury may, however, continue to keep him out of singles competition during the team's trip to California this spring...
...students smoked. "Be honest," he added. The only one who admitted to smoking was Shawn Galloway, 16, who has been puffing up to three packs a day since the age of ten. Califano told Shawn that if she gave up smoking, she and a friend could have a free trip to Washington and a visit to the White House. Then he whizzed...
Shawn smoked her last cigarette on the way home from school that day. But when a Houston reporter called HEW to ask about the trip to Washington, it turned out that there were problems. After consulting with the Surgeon General's office, HEW stipulated that Shawn would have to stop smoking for six months before she was really in the clear. And she would need written proof. And there were no Government funds to pay for her trip...
...much belabored and quite real self-absorption of the '70s implies, by definition, a corollary lack of interest in children. There are many forms of narcissism, of course; one of the lesser arguments of militant non-propagationists has been that children are an ego trip, begotten for the pleasure of watching one's own little clone toddle around. But today having children often seems to have been trivialized to the status of a life-style -and an unacceptable one. The obsession with being young and staying young has led to the phenomenon of almost permanently deferred adulthood...
...lived for more than twelve years on her wooden 55-ft. sailboat, Silhouette. "I love the water," she says. "I love to get up in the morning and see the seagulls. It's a lovely sensation being rocked to sleep. It's like a continuous camping-out trip...