Word: wood
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Ryles--George Schuller, Ben Scher, Marshall Wood...
...novelist knows his way around the block. Take the first sentence of Larry McMurtry's moody, sensitive, ironic yet lightheartedly despairing new novel: "Duane was in the hot tub, shooting at his new doghouse with a .44 Magnum." The Jamesian restraint of the language -- not "Blam, blam, blam, wood chips glinted in the dusty air," but a dreamlike, almost passive kind of doghouse blasting -- foreshadows subtle stuff. The hero, we sense, is a country boy (the name Duane, and the implication that there is enough vacant acreage behind the doghouse so that stray bullets won't perforate anything important) whose...
...best. That has been the Marines' coda from Tripoli to Belleau Wood, from Guadalcanal to Inchon. But in the past few years, these gleaming images have dissolved into others: blood-spattered rubble in Beirut, interservice turf battles in Grenada, a can-do lieutenant colonel wearing a medal-bedecked uniform while invoking the Fifth Amendment, furtive Moscow nights of sex for secrets. Says former California Congressman Pete McCloskey, a twice-wounded Marine veteran of Korea: "When I saw 200-plus Marines in Beirut bunched up in violation of every standard precept, I winced a lot. When I saw Ollie North...
With a population of 25 million, Canada sent 78% of all of its exports, chiefly wood products, minerals and automobiles, to the U.S. last year, earning $71 billion. The U.S. sent back some $58 billion worth of heavy machinery, appliances and other goods. The $13 billion merchandise balance in Canada's favor was partly offset by an $8.1 billion U.S. trading surplus in such services as insurance and investment. No less than 80% of the trade across the northern U.S. border is already duty free. Trade experts estimate that totally free trade would boost the roughly $416 billion Canadian economy...
Doubles: 1, BOSS-BLAND def. Richardson-Cathryn Sullivan, 6-4, 6-2; 2, VIGNA-AUSTRIAN def. Molumphy-Wood, 7-6 (9-7), 6-2; 3, Christina Callahan-Heidi Kunichika def. MULVEHAL-DRAGOMIRESCU...