Word: wheels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says Imlach, whose Toronto teams won four Stanley Cups, "but I've never been so fortunate as with the Sabres." To determine which expansion team would get first choice in the 1970 player draft, Imlach gained the rights to Perreault by winning a spin on a numbered gaming wheel. Perreault, who, Imlach predicts, "is going to be the greatest hockey player in the world," scored a first-year record of 38 goals and skated off with Rookie of the Year honors...
...CHARACTERIZE my play I had to use a neologism," Apollinaire remarked in his preface to The Breasts of Tiresias, "so I coined the adjective surrealist...When man wanted to imitate a walk," he added by way of definition, "he made the wheel, which does not resemble a leg. Thus he created surrealism without knowing...
...turned out to be a peculiarly Yankee notion of universal principles translatable into an earthly Utopia. Fuller's trademark word was Dymaxion, which meant getting the most out of available technology. Dymaxion houses would solve the world's shelter problems. Dymaxion cars, steered by a single rear wheel, could park in a space only one foot larger than the car itself. Today, Fuller holds more than 20 patents, mostly for structural designs still...
...astrometry, which includes the measuring of tiny perturbations, or wobbles, in the paths of some stars as they move almost imperceptibly against the background of much more distant "fixed" stars. Astronomers are convinced that those periodic disturbances in what should be a smooth line of motion as the stars wheel about the center of the Milky Way Galaxy can mean only one thing: that the stars are being tugged by the gravitational attraction of planets or small companion stars orbiting around them...
...away it would go across the Yard and into the waiting hands of Mac and Ed at Wheeler's. The last bit of copy was carried by a plucky little beggar who rode as he had never ridden before, and was quite done out when he fell off his wheel as he delivered his copy. But he had done his bit well, and the crowd, coming from the game, was met in the Yard with cries of "Full account of the game! Crimson extra...