Word: sprouted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West. The expensive problem facing the U.S. and its allies is that increased complexity of weapons usually means a decrease in reliability. Service rivalries and political pressure do not help. Getting the bugs out of new machinery may take years, a-which time the molds of obsolescence start to sprout. Dunnigan, author of The Complete Wargames Handbook, a consultant to the Defense Department and lecturer at U.S. service academies, has facts and figures in reserve. The Soviet Union puts 14% of its gross national product into arms. The U.S. spends 7% of its larger G.N.P., and Japan less than...
When Ricardo Montalban, 61, the courtly Mr. Roarke of TV's Fantasy Island, goes home and hangs up his impeccably pressed white suit, what does a man who caters to dreams change into? Perhaps his own fantasy is to doff his fastidious mien, let his hair sprout, and lounge around in the tattered haute couture of an intergalactic hitchhiker? In Paramount's $10 million space epic Star Trek II, Montalban does just that. He plays the diabolic Khan, a villainous android who escapes exile on a nightmarish planet but not the embraces of two comely space maidens...
...NOTE BOOK: Ellen "Sprout" Jakovic played effectively yesterday despite a cut over her eye sustained against Boston College which required five stitches. The senior fullback, who finished Thursday night's game with a butterfly bandage, said the stitches would be removed today...The booters have an entire week of practice to polish new moves before they host Dartmouth Saturday morning at Soldiers Field...Soccer fans were somewhat disappointed to miss Virginia Ferrante, Cat's sister and last year's B.U. winger, who took this year off. HARVARD 9-Boston University 0 at the Business School Field...
...Vries has his own compulsion, operating with an old-fashioned belief that more is more. In Sauce for the Goose, subplots sprout out of subplots. He even deploys amnesia in one story line, forgetting just why the line began in the first place. No pratfall is beneath him. His pun can still be mightier than his word, and he delights in portmanteau items, as in the case of the little band of fundamentalists who obstinately refuse to cut their "umbibli-cal" cord. But at times his verbal games can become so outrageous that you can't see de words...
...Montreal, will be in pin-stripes by next March. Steinbrenner has frequently expressed his admiration for the fiery (some say abusive) field general who had so much success in Oakland. On the other hand, George seems to have grown tired of spunky managers; Billy Martin caused him to sprout more than a few gray hairs, and when Michael, whom everyone assumed would be a marshmallow--displayed his resentment over mid-inning telephone threats from the owner's box, Steinbrenner refused to relent...