Word: woods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your picture of Federal Reserve Chairman G. William Miller [July 17] brandishing a wood in hip-high rough may, as you say, show the "ultimate in self-confidence," but it is the ultimate of several other things as well, like dumb golf...
...occasion was Origins 78, the fourth U.S. national war gamers' conference. For 72 hours, some 3,600 hobbyists, exhibitors and camp followers milled and argued, chattered and competed in a giant tournament. To Paul Wood, 35, chief conference organizer and president of the hosting club, Metro Detroit Gamers, the event was as simple as a military tune: "It's nice to get together, drink a few beers, and have a good time combatting each other." In fact, the whole affair was as complex as, well, a war. All weekend, participants were indulging in the seductive impulse to establish...
Deathtrap. Like a boa constrictor, this murder mystery coils lethally around its characters. Marinating menace with a lunatic humor, John Wood, a superb actor, can make a playgoer die laughing...
...been sold out for quite a while. There should be some seats left for the two-game stint against the rapidly faltering Chicago White Sox on Monday and Tuesday, because the way the Pale Hose have been playing lately they couldn't draw a full house if Wilbur Wood promised to arrive on the mound in a sleigh pulled by eight tiny reindeer. Of course, given the level of bloodlust in Boston lately, there may well be a big crowd...
...night, they seek shelter in farmhouses, boring holes in the walls and hiding in bedding and curtains. The only way to combat them is with brooms and vacuum cleaners. Says Mrs. James Dow Jr. of Turner: "I vacuum piles of beetles every day and toss them into my wood stove...