Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Somehow, Ivy League players never rate very well when the Upper Eschelon of American football gathers in New York to compare computer outputs and flowery scouting reports that inevitably rate respective number one choices as "loaded with potential," or as having "great size," "fantastic speed," and "adept moves." Always, the top picks are "the best prospects in the last 200 years." The fans love it. The owners love it. The number one choices usually bomb...
Indeed, so thick are the 1972 contenders in the Senate that their maneuvering for the limelight could impede the upper chamber's work. Over in the House, Ohio Republican Clarence...
...olivine, which is rich in iron and is also found in meteorites. Around the core is a 60-mile-thick transition zone, or lower mantle, composed of a mixture of olivine and basalt-like rock that was apparently formed out of molten material. Next comes the 150-mile-thick upper mantle, an entirely basaltic layer in which, some lunar scientists suspect, there may have been slow-moving convection currents -movements roughly akin to those that occur in a simmering pot of oatmeal...
...Tribune is also restoring capitalization that was swept away years ago by McCormick. For decades, the paper's "down" style decreed orient, soviet, communism. The only medal or memorial allowed upper case was the Purple Heart. Kirkpatrick explains that the return to "up" style was made "as a service to the reader, so he can scan a story rapidly, and important things such as the name of an organization will stand...
Walter Mitty is alive and well in the appealing shape of a young matron on Manhattan's Upper West Side. She is Margaret Reynolds, the decidedly sane housewife-heroine of Up the Sandbox, a fresh, beguiling, bittersweet novel that looks into those three old hats: men, marriage, motherhood...