Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spell cannot obscure the quality of Ford's eleven, however. With perhaps two more players, and far fewer injuries, it would have been a superb team. A center-forward who could worry opposing goalies in the air would have complemented Keller-Sarmiento and Mogollan's play on the ground and added an extra dimension to the Crimson attack. One other fine halfback might have given the team the dominance it needed in midfield...
Most of the stations began selling gasohol in recent months as a way to make up for lower allotments of gasoline available to them and to "get in on the ground floor of the gasohol market," Chris Hansen, assistant to the director of resource development at the State Office of Energy Resources, said yesterday...
They claim that their water requirements would be reasonable. Company officials also say that the underground cooking process seals the chambers, actually fuses the rock, and prevents salts from leaching into ground water. Firms plan to contour the piles of leftover shale rubble and to plant them with local wild flowers and grasses; tests have shown good results...
...frightening a natural cataclysm as had befallen the young nation. Buildings tumbled and forests were destroyed. Giant fissures opened in the ground, accompanied by a thunderous roar and a spreading sulfurous odor. Wrote one eyewitness: "The whole land was moved and waved like waves of the sea." The usually placid Mississippi became an angry torrent of whirlpools and rapids, overflowing its banks and possibly even briefly reversing course...
...humiliation stung him, and it seems no accident that when he married, into the wealthy and socially prominent Sedgwick family of Stockbridge, Mass., he found much to resent among his in-laws. His second wife came from a similar back ground, and neither marriage was successful. By the time' Marquand wrote The Late George Apley and H.M. Pulham, Esquire, he had earned his wry attitude to ward the well born...