Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...found that they could deliver mail within the city more quickly and at a lower cost than could the government--and still make a profit." You won't win this dispute, since everyone has had a letter lost by the U.S.P.S. at some time or other. Give up this ground; maybe your libertarian will get cocky...
Waiting anxiously in the wings is the radical left's idol, Tony Benn, 55, who will probably boycott the parliamentary balloting for the party leadership on the ground that it is less democratic than the proposed new electoral college. Cynics offer another reason: Benn would make a poor showing because even leftist colleagues are cool to him. If the electoral college is dominated by the far left and chooses Benn, Labor M.P.s would almost certainly move to elect their own leader. This dual system works well in West Germany. But in the acrimonious precincts of the British Labor Party...
...Algerian government plans to expand the tent city to house the crowded survivors for three or four months until prefabricated housing can be erected. Meanwhile, the city itself is to be sealed off and leveled to the ground. Surviving residents surveyed their demolished homes and wondered if the fertile Chéliff River valley town was even worth rebuilding. Said one young man:"I had heard people talk about the 1954 earthquake. But I could never imagine this. I think we should find another place...
...Turn were a triple-A ball player, the scouting report might read:"Excellent singles hitter, moderate speed, covers a lot of ground, good prospect for the majors." Screenwriter Bergstein has a flair for funny lines that arise from the characters, and Director Weill has drawn fine performances from a large, likable cast. Some movies show, others reveal. It's My Turn is a minor revelation...
There, upon the ground, lay the whitened image of a youth. His white eyes were starting from their crumbly sockets; his white mouth was gaping and within it, his teeth (still unconsumed), gleamed like beads. But worst of all, round his white neck was the knot of the white scarf (once black) with which he had been strangled! The burning quicklime, like the burning mind above it, had thrust up the knowledge of the crime...