Word: wisp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turned out that Dame Irony had dealt me a wicked coup d'epee. Gregory had been at the airport all along, searching for me! Now it is too late for us. I know that love is an evanescence, a cruel will-o'-the-wisp that will e'er elude...
...nation's 725,000 postal workers, who stand to get annual pay hikes ranging from $371 to $507 a year. Even that did not please everyone. Gustave Johnson, leader of the letter carriers' Manhattan Branch 36, which began last month's strike, called the settlement a "wisp of smoke" and threatened another one if Washington did not increase the ante. The Administration may have trouble enough just paying for the current raise, which will cost $2.5 billion a year. Congress has made it clear that it will not pick up the President's suggestion that first...
RALPH DE JESUS is twelve years old, a 60-lb. wisp of a boy barely four feet tall, with gentle eyes and pale arms so thin that it is almost impossible to believe that they could take a needle. But Ralphie is a junkie. He has not only used heroin, but he has also taken part in muggings and sold drugs to his friends in order to support his habit. Last week Ralphie was in Manhattan's Odyssey House, in a group therapy session with a psychiatrist and a dozen ex-addicts aged 14 to 18. Ralphie wanted...
...runner who, as one scout puts it, "can carry the ball 55 times a game and five-yard you to death." If durable is the word for Owens, slippery is the term for Pittman, who racked up 31 TDs for the Nittany Lions. "An elusive will-o'-the-wisp," reads one scouting report. "You go to tackle him and there just isn't anybody there. He has an uncanny knack for picking his hole and getting through it before the defense knows what's happened...