Word: checkerboard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sentimental attachment to Barth's brilliant earlier epic-length efforts, Giles Goat-Boy and The Sot-Weed Factor, or out of sheer quixotic nerve--you could take the advice of Jacob Horner, formerly the protagonist of The End of the Road and now a pawn wandering Barth's checkerboard...
...Yale powerplay, which had hit on 28 per cent of its chances during the season, made good only 39 ticks into a Mitch Olson hooking sentence. Outrageously efficient checkerboard passing from Castraberti to Jon Weber to Poliziani to Hamilton alone at the left post made practical application of a textbook play...
...minute and a half later gave the Crimson a chance to come back--sort of. Sporting a two-man advantage, Harvard's Jack Hughes got into the "boom and score" parade with a low rocket from the right point. Jack's tally came as the result of pretty checkerboard power-play passing, and fueled the icemen's momentum for the next several minutes...
...Rappaport, chairman of the department of vegetable crops at the University of California at Davis: "Agriculture is now in perpetual revolution, and there is no end in sight." People flying over the West and Midwest see an unusual pattern on the terrain below: not the familiar farm land with checkerboard squares, but large polka dots, the result of costly ($50,000 each) center-pivot irrigation machines that automatically propel themselves around the fields in a circle. Some of the strawberries that Americans buy and eat are cloned. Yes, cloned. The process in brief: plant tissue is mushed up, placed...
Harvard had to wait almost six minutes to tie the score. With Friar Dan Haskins off for tripping, the icemen's deliberate, checkerboard passing eventually found McDonald alone five feet in front of the net. The newcomer responded with his first goal of the year, with assists going to pointmen Jim Trainor and Bob Leckie...