Word: straighter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Houston-based club has another branch in Memphis and is breaking ground for a sibling in Chicago), but the hottest place in town is Le Jardin. Boston has the handsome new Fan Club, of which one patron says proudly, "It's trashy enough to be New York, only straighter." Miami has the pulsating Palm Room in the fashionable Palm Bay Club. Disco-mania has spread to the suburbs of New York, Los Angeles and Atlanta, to Holiday Inns and department store basements. There is hardly a disco owner who is sure that his place will last, given the mercurial...
...recall the nursery school edict of the early fifties when these students had been at the start of their educations: 'It is not formal manners that we are interested in, but internal feelings.' How wrong could they be? By what road straighter and faster than that of external forms does internal feeling travel to another person...
Enter left Pat Horton, the state district attorney from Oregon whose testimony rocked the Judiciary Committee hearing room by all accounts, with one exception. The legislators could identify with Horton: as Lawson said, "You'll never see a straighter, tougher, more middle-class sort of guy, and that is why he was so effective." Murphy adds, "Horton testified to the following: every major candidate in last year's state elections supported decriminalization in Oregon," Murphy says. "He was a strong law-and-order man, but he testified that this bill now let him do the job the people of Oregon...
...does he move in a much straighter line as a writer. He is unable to resist just one more illustration, even if it means forgetting the point. The topics covered in his book range from A (as in Abyssinian salt) to Z (as in Zeno of Elea). He discourses upon the rise and fall of cities since the Roman Empire, the possibilities for growing grapes in Scotland, the rules for transmitting property among the Tartars, and of course the "Revolt of our American Colonies." Smith writes: "The rulers of Great Britain have, for more than a century past, amused...
Klammer, Italian Herbert Plank, 21, and Swiss Veteran Bernhard Russi, 27, should dominate the downhill schuss. "Go for maximum speed, but never force it," says Russi. Forcing it, however, is Klammer's credo. The straighter-and steeper-the course, the better Franz feels. He likes a sheer drop of ice, so Innsbruck's curvy Patscherkofel Trail is not ideal for him. Two Canadian daredevils, Dave Irwin and Ken Read, have recently scored upsets in European events...