Word: checkerboard
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Goodbye Luke, called Myrtle from the steps of the cafe to a man climbing into a truck. The air felt cooler inside. Rick watched the flies play hopscotch on the checkerboard cloths. I'm Myrtle, said Myrtle. What can I get you? Sammy ordered iced coffee. Rick ordered coffee ice cream. What is coffee ice cream? asked Myrtle...
...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...