Word: pointer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dartmouth, 1-13 and winless in the Ivy League, edged the Big Red out of the basement. Columbia, 2-15 overall and 1-5 in the Ivies, put the pressure on too, dropping a one-pointer to Cornell January...
Picking up a pointer, Bolt explained a large chart that presented the panel's findings in graphic form. A principal technique used in arriving at their conclusions, he noted, was to develop the tape "in a sense that you develop a picture." A fluid containing magnetically sensitized particles was rubbed over the tape. The particles arranged themselves in conformity to magnetic imprints previously induced on the tape by electronic signals in the original recording and erasing processes. Thus the imprints could be seen with the naked eye and photographed. Bolt also noted that the signals had been analyzed by oscilloscope...
Jenkins, who has poured in 14 points per contest, bounced back from a six-pointer performance against B.C., for a 20-point game that sunk the Bruins. Jenkins & sliver, Inc., outrebounded Brown...
Blacks have been protesting these rules for more than 20 years. In 1966 black workers at U.S. Steel's massive mill operations near Birmingham, Ala., took the company and several union locals to court. This past August, Federal Judge Sam C. Pointer Jr. ordered...
Like Bertolt Brecht and Max Frisch, Switzerland's Friedrich Duerrenmatt is one of those didactic dramatists who regard the theater as a classroom, the stage as a blackboard, the pen as a pointer and the playgoers as barely educable dolts. These playwrights take a dim view of man, dividing the species into two arbitrary categories: predators and prey, the fleecers and the fleeced. No one would deny that such characters are abundantly present in life, but to see the entire pattern of human behavior in these terms is one-eyed vision. As propounded in The Visit, currently being revived...