Word: starkness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bobby Lowe, now 28, those stark moments of recognition in 1972 had led to a five-year tale of personal distress, fear of Mafia reprisals, and courage that came to a dramatic climax last week in the Cook County criminal court in Chicago. Lowe was the star witness in a case brought by county prosecutors against Harry ("the Hook") Aleman, 38, one of the most feared hit men in the Chicago Mafia. Police suspect that Aleman was involved in 22 murders, including one in which the victim was ripped three times through the neck with a broomstick. But none...
...title "Hark, Hark, a Quark -Maybe" [May 2] was the mark of an aardvark who crawled in from a stark Ozark park and was really in the dark. As Professor Gell-Mann could tell you. Quark rhymes with torque, pork, stork, cork, fork and Sergeant O'Rourke of New York, New York...
...given it to him one night at a fund-raiser for the United Farm Workers which he attended because after all, his parents were grape pickers back in California. The friend said the cartoon was appropriate for Paco, so he had hung it on his wall next to the stark black eagle of UFW union seal. He used to chuckle at it every now and then without really knowing...
...song, Sheila mourns Berger's misplaced priorities, since he only cares "about the bleeding crowd," not "about a needing friend." The nude scene near the close of the first act also effectively depicts the dark side of the tribe's rebellion. Stripping while under arrest, the tribe members appear stark naked rather than alluringly nude...
Seated at his most formal White House desk, Carter was serious and effective Monday night in delineating the dimensions of the impending energy shortage. Although his words were, as always, delivered in soft Southern tones, they were blunt and stark. If the world's use of oil continues at present rates, he predicted, demand will exceed international production by the early 1980s. Just to stay even would require "the production of a new Texas every year, an Alaskan North Slope every nine months or a new Saudi Arabia every three years...