Word: walking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freshman Jim Dalos, the number four man, carded a 79 to walk away with medalist honors and the only score below 80. The sixth and seventh golfers for Harvard, Jon Chase and George Arnold, each brought home steady...
...been most skilled at their own kind of jam. At each song's end, they break down the rhythms and patterns into an elaborate, jazz-like chaos and then reassemble the component parts into another song. These acid-jazz jams comprise some of their best music, like "Dark Star," "Walk Me Out in the Morning Dew," and "The Other." Dead concerts unfold like four-hour medleys as each song gradually gives way to the next. The great theme of the band is departure and return--the trip, metaphorically or literally. Not only does their music describe this pattern, but their...
...fellow a light bulb in the apartment of a fellow tenant too old to climb a ladder. But he does not bore the reader with his anger. In stead he spins a fascinating personal yearn about the lengthy battle waged by the tenants fo an old rent-controlled walk-up apartment house in the Gramercy Park section of New York City against the monied force of an expansion-bent hospital across the street...
...daughter of a bricklayer in the Abruzzi village of Villalago (pop. 900), Claudia had come to Rome last year to work as an au pair. One sultry summer evening she was out for a walk with a teen-age youth when she was chased down by a gang of about 17 young men who threatened her with a club and raped her. Before she was taken to the hospital, Claudia was able to point out some of her assailants to police. They arrested seven neighborhood toughs, aged 17 to 20, including her companion who had joined in the attack...
...starts with a high fever and a severe headache, accompanied by swollen glands, vomiting and general pain. Left untreated, the malady gradually worsens. After several months, victims become irritable, then lethargic and sleepy. When they try to walk, they are likely to stumble about with a peculiar shuffling gait. Soon they can no longer stand, sit erect or even eat; often they fall into a coma and die. Their illness is African sleeping sickness, or trypanosomiasis -an ancient scourge that afflicts at least 10,000 people a year...