Word: kick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, Lawrence says, "anybody that could track a lion or a bear was looked on as something outstanding." But when everybody went into the ecology kick, "they figured people like me were worse than the lion or the bear." Lawrence adds with a bitter edge on his voice, "I had people from two agencies at a time following me around to see if I was doing right. I quit to get away from the harassment." Eventually he found work as a range detective with the Mojave County sheriffs office, and that led him to a job doing "crime reconstruction...
...courses that Shelley Hack never needed as a history major at Smith were how to handle a snub-nosed .38 and the proper way to kick nasty men in the ribs. Neither did she require such talents as the sybaritic Charlie perfume girl. But both are in her curriculum now that Hack, 31, has replaced Kate Jackson in the trio of Charlie's Angels alongside Veterans Cheryl Ladd and Jaclyn Smith. Artfully imitating her own earlier life, Hack will play a Seven Sisters seraph named Tiffany Welles. As such, she has to bite the Angel dust from time...
...Corporation makes. Although Harvard's phenomenal $1.4 billion endowment--nearly twice as large as Yale's the nearest competitor--looks like a sturdy nest egg to envious officials of other universities, Corporation members see only inflation and recession eating away at it. A gargantuan $250 million fund drive will kick off this fall to shore up the endowment so they can rest easy once more...
...writing as well. After a couple of transitional pieces, including a bitter account of Nixon's first inauguration, he plunged full-fledged into gonzo with "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Deparaved," a hilarious and brutal tale with Thompson in the starring role, English illustrator Ralph Steadman as side-kick, and the liquor-filled aristocracy of Churchill Downs as the venal side of America...
...Wonder Fuel that can not only drive cars, heat homes and produce electricity but may also be brewed out of kitchen garbage? All this is possible with Ch 2 H 5 OH, which is better known as grain alcohol or ethanol, the stuff that provides the kick in gin and whisky. Ethanol was used decades ago to power early automobiles, only to fade when plentiful supplies of cheaper gasoline became available. Now that gas is getting scarce and costly, the fuel is coming back...