Word: reckoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...factor, of course, is the weather itself. New England has had an unseasonably warm November, while last year's was "the coldest in 30 years," says the New England Fuel Institute's Charle Burkhardt. Unfortunately, that help may be ending. Experts at the U.S. National Weather Service reckon that the odds are 4 to 3 that the nation's Northeastern quarter will be colder than normal through January. But for the Western half of the nation, above-normal temperatures are predicted-at the same odds...
...states that have failed to ratify the amendment.- Some 40 national political and professional groups-including the National Education Association, the National Lawyers Guild and the Democratic National Committee-have agreed to take part in the boycott, and targets are already feeling the pressure. Miami Beach authorities reckon that their city has already lost $9 million in forgone convention business as a result. For its part, NOW estimates the loss for New Orleans at $7 million; Chicago, $15 million; Las Vegas, $30 million; Atlanta, $12 million.' The boycott was born last February as the Nevada legislature was voting...
Coming off a strong performance against Yale last week, the Bruins held URI to just 162 yards for the game. On the record sheets Brown is 0-1 in league play. On the field, they will be a force to reckon with...
...Matisse strewed his cut-out nouns of shape-ivy leaf, diver, parakeet, dancer-work in the same way. They are not backgrounds; they are an enveloping fluid, a space that seems as active as its contents but, being "unpainted," is wholly different. Every painter since 1950 has had to reckon with the peculiar void Matisse invented with his cutouts. Not one has equaled their suppleness as décor, or their episodic grandeur as painting...
...Times has been the newspaper for competitors to reckon with ever since Adolph Ochs bought it in 1896, 45 years after the paper was founded by a Republican politician and a few months before it would have died of terminal mismanagement. Ochs (which he pronounced ox, its meaning in German), the Cincinnati-born son of German-Jewish immigrants, had at the age of 20 acquired the flagging Chattanooga Times and revived it. He set out to work a similar miracle on Park Row, the Times's home until he moved it north in 1904 to Longacre Square (which city fathers...