Word: western
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dirt road running up Parachute Creek in western Colorado winds through an ever steeper canyon. As the road climbs, it deteriorates into first a stream bed and then a cliff-hugging path that passes a blackened ledge of shale rock that was struck by lightning two years ago and spouted flames for three days. The Indians once dubbed the magic mineral "the rock that burns...
...Quiet on the Western Front, Nov. 14, CBS, 8 p.m. E.S.T...
...terrors of all description, but World War I is the original horror of the 20th century, from which most of the others have sprung. Though the armistice was signed 61 years ago this week, the memory of what used to be called the Great War remains forever embedded in Western consciousness. It is just as well that it is, and fitting too that to mark that grim anniversary CBS will present a new version of Erich Maria Remarque's classic antiwar novel, All Quiet on the Western Front...
...movies: a group of boys go from school to training camp to the front lines, becoming men only to die. "You are our iron youth," their high school instructor (Donald Pleasence) tells them, with proper Germanic pride. "Iron youth be comes iron heroes." They are sent to the Western Front, where they find that iron, like everything else, quickly disintegrates in the trenches. A veteran, Katczinsky (Ernest Borgnine), teaches them the two essentials of staying alive - stealing food and killing Frenchies. Never use a bayonet, he says; while you are pulling it out of a man's stomach...
...just 10 games, Fouts has passed for a league-leading 2,479 yds., and his 63.2% completion percentage puts him first among the N.F.L.'s 28 starting quarterbacks. On his strong arm, the Chargers climbed to a tie with Denver in the American Football Conference's Western Division, with a record of 7 wins and 3 losses, and have a good chance of making the playoffs for the first time since the A.F.L./N.F.L. merger...