Word: woodeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another sprawling to the ground to avoid a beaning. Bad enough, but then Home Plate Umpire Rich Garcia claimed that the pitcher had nicked the third hitter on the hand. In a flash of anger, the manager of the Baltimore Orioles came bellowing out of the dugout. "I heard wood...
...bedroom East Side Manhattan apartment that cost $50,000 four years ago now goes for $225,000. A modest brownstone in Brooklyn costs $130,000. Fifty-year-old houses in Atlanta's Virginia-Highland neighborhood of wood-frame bungalows have doubled from $30,000 in 1976 to $60,000. A one-bedroom condo in Boston's scruffy South End costs up to $60,000. Says Ann Wallace, 31, who was looking to buy in the supposedly inexpensive area of south-central Los Angeles: "What we figured would sell for $40,000 is selling for $60,000. What...
Pihl said that because the summer program is well-managed, it has "little overhead, no dead wood." It does not have to pay for extra facilities the way the University does during the academic year, he added...
...Well don't you think it's more sensitive?' But when people need to figure out what's going on in the world and who they are, when the energy crisis comes on so bad that middle class people are out in the backyard chopping up wood, I think you may see a resurgence in this type of music. It's sensitive, it's based on direct experience, and it's conversational--it tells a story, it tries to relate. It doesn't just scream...
...matter. Keep going, keep the average up, aim for $10 million. The first day brings "over $4 million." The three-day total, a satisfied Wilson reports: "upwards of $7½ million." The pub is duly dispatched, to be knocked back into the bits and pieces of wood and glass from which it came and shipped off by container-arriving as one big jigsaw puzzle. The transportation and reassembly may cost as much as the object itself. But, insists Dennis Gibbons of Grand American Fare, "you couldn't build a paneled room for the price of these pieces...