Word: midways
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Palm Coast, Fla., is an immense undertaking of an International Telephone and Telegraph subsidiary, which is cutting up 92,000 acres midway between St. Augustine and Daytona Beach into lots that company executives think will house 650,000 people by the year 2000. ITT has put some thought into planning: residential areas will be separated by greenbelts, and all houses (only 180 built so far) will be hooked up to company-owned water and sewage plants. But ITT can harvest timber from a buyer's lot until his payments are completed, leaving him with the cost of removing stumps...
...lackluster Harvard offensive showing was not enough, the team lost its only legitimate scoring threat, Felix Adedeji, midway through the second half with a twisted left knee. Adedeji played well at times but missed a golden opportunity in the second half on a breakaway...
Detective Wambaugh is thorough. But he leaves, in fact, few clues as to his prime motive for re-creating what he calls "the most maddening case of any detective's life." One clue is buried midway in the book when Wambaugh tells of a certain "young vice officer" who strongly opposes the department's do-or-die dictum on survival as suicidal. However, that anonymous cop, who undoubtedly is Wambaugh, refuses to challenge his superiors at the time because "he lacked that kind of courage and he knew it." Now, with the courage of a rich...
...long marriage to an Irish sweetheart, Mary McBryde Smith. Were Ford characters patriots? When World War II came along, despite a personal battle with blindness, Ford volunteered for overseas duty. He directed the Navy's film documentary unit, received a machine-gun wound at the battle of Midway, gathered evidence for the Nuremberg trials and retired with the rank of rear admiral in the Reserves...
...midnight, it is over for the day. Young farm boys drag themselves back to the livestock pens to sleep on aluminum lounges beside their hogs or sheep or cattle, while their parents catch the last shuttle back up the hill to where the family camper is parked. Even the midway finally shuts down, and an unaccustomed calm falls over the fairgrounds. Fairgoers somehow find their cars in the mammoth parking lot, load in the family and drive out the gates back to their own lives. Out side the fair, there are harder choices than whether to see the milking contest...