Word: upper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their leg muscles get strained from sprinting, and shoulder muscles tear from pitching. "Throwing one's arm out" is no mere figure of speech. Dr. James Purdy, emergency-room physician at Northside Hospital in Atlanta, recalls one softball player who threw the ball so hard he shattered his upper arm bone. A hard-hit ball can have a shattering effect of its own when hand-eye coordination fails...
...other characters are not in the same league. Roger Lipson as Red Ryder is just not up to the demands of his role. Right from the start, when he sits at the counter reading Playboy, perusing the centerfold as if it were The New York Times, sucking his upper lip noisily and smoking a cigarette as if it were the first one he had ever seen in his life, he generally fails to establish himself as a convincing character. Director Leslie Rose obviously has no idea what a real redneck is like, and neither does Lipson. Throughout the play Lipson...
...from the QSRA (for Quiet Short Haul Research Airplane), which Boeing developed for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The plane will be ideal for commuters, since it can take off and land on extremely short runways. Reason: its four engines mounted atop the wing blow exhaust over the upper surface, creating phenomenal lift...
People act, in short, as though names do possess strange power. Indeed, some names act as though they have the upper hand, sometimes persisting against all efforts at eradication. Cape Canaveral stuck where it was put long ago in spite of efforts to displace it with the chimerical name of Kennedy. Sixth Avenue remains just that to many New Yorkers in spite of diligent efforts to promote the general use of the 33-year-old legal name, Avenue of the Americas. Mount McKinley is still not generally accepted by Alaskans, who tend to prefer the peak's original designation...
...from the generally stagnant era of English history called the Restoration is Restoration comedy. Playwrights such as Congreve, Vanbrugh and William Wyncherly fashioned a brand of theatrical social satire using the raw materials afforded by courtly foppery and greed and the devil-take-all decadence of the urban upper classes. Relying heavily on wit, bawdry, and ludicrously fashioned images, these plays were often quite vicious in their criticism of London society despite the fact that many of the playwrights were a part of the madhouse themselves...