Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...admit defeat in a game of basketball against his son. After playing dirty in the first place, he taunts his son for being a sissy, a homosexual, and a girl, because the boy will not continue to keep playing until the father wins. Meechum shoves his wife to the ground and kicks his other children away when they protest that his son has beaten him fair and square. The situation defuses quietly after the initial heat--but the incident rips wide open a blister in the family that has festered since Bull Meechum's return, sowing the seeds of hatred...
...actually gets across the line. And we must make sure that we don't violate that line on patrol, not with a single footprint, tire track or rotor blade." Crow assigns daily helicopter patrols to fly "the trace," as the border is known, always with specially trained pilots. Ground patrols operate within a few feet of the frontier, occasionally augmented by new M-60A3 tanks, says Crow, "to remind the other side that we have a wartime capability here as well...
...National Geographic, Natural History and Smithsonian. It is not easy. As a for-profit enterprise, Geo finds it must charge subscribers $3 a copy, vs. National Geographic's per-issue price of 790. Says Geo Editor in Chief Harold Kaplan of his nonprofit competitors: "They cover the same ground we do, sell a slew of ads, but pay no taxes. It's not a fair shake." Observes New Yorker President George Green: "Some of these [nonprofit] magazines are marketing themselves as advertising vehicles, rather than as sidelines of organizations. Dial was developed solely to sell advertising...
...MIDDLE GROUND by Margaret Drabble; Knopf; 277pages...
This combination works splendidly in The Middle Ground. Kate Armstrong, the novel's heroine, is both the logical culmination of Drabble's female characters and good fun to be around on her own. In her early 40s, Kate has acquired three teen-age children, an ex-husband, an ex-lover, and a thriving career writing about women's issues for London newspapers and glossy magazines. She has also undergone a necessary but heartbreaking abortion. The realization of how much she wanted another child, even if seriously crippled, has badly shaken both her and many of her opinions...