Word: workaday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...named head of the new management group that launched the motor division as an independent firm after its aero-engineering parent went under. Plastow says that the breakup of the old company was the best thing that ever happened to its motorcar division because "too many workaday decisions - including every aspect of pricing - had to be referred to the old company...
While no fireworks were expected during the summit itself, the third Nixon-Brezhnev meeting seemed to be a landmark of another kind. It was the first of the quiet summits, the start of dull, workaday meetings that offered the possibility that the nuclear-arms competition some day might be ended...
Only a week after splashdown, the astronauts were already settling back into a full workaday routine in Houston. Lousma and Garriott, both physical fitness buffs, had resumed jogging. Doctors reported that all three crew members were recovering their strength at a faster pace than the first Skylab team, perhaps because of a stepped-up conditioning program...
Pumped up with enough hot air and hard dollars to start a respectable Balkan war, the big evening maintained its P.T. Barnum air-at least until the principals squared off across the net. Workaday Texas fans mingled with celebrities who had jetted into Houston for the occasion. Before the match, such diverse names as Andy Williams and Claudine Longet, ex-Football Star Jim Brown, Heavyweight Champion George Foreman, Actor Rod Steiger and Actress Jo Ann Pflug (in a clinging blue jersey with I'M A BILLIE JEAN KING FAN Stenciled on the back) swirled through a champagne party...
...sidelong wit and the marvelously supple prose, now gold, now grit) along with the worst (the wooden dialogue, the coy hints at profound meanings that never quite come out from behind the prose screens). More than any of his 17 previous novels, the story takes off from the workaday world in search of the ineffable. The familiar trappings of Wright's baroque realism turn up: the taste of switch grass and cord grass, the loom of grain elevators, the feel of a kitten dropped by wanton boys into a country-school privy. But the subject is myth. Old, unbelieving...