Word: threads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last, the bottle was unsealed. Barbara Dunbar, director of the historical society, and Archivist Greg Koos used forceps to draw out the little mummies, wrapped in white linen and tied round and round with thread. General McNulta's sense of history turned out to be touchingly immediate. He had left, so elaborately wrapped and labeled...
...beginning to stake out positions on that premier fret of the American public: the economy. So far, they are producing no ideas that seem much different from or better than Carter's but only an array of me-too remedies that are eclectic yet oddly limited. The common thread that winds through nearly all is that Government can help the most by meddling the least. The new fashion for 1980 will not be spend and spend, elect and elect, but cut and trim and hope for the best. A preview of the leading challengers' economic plans...
Part of the trouble is in the writing and part in the playing. For a boy-meets-girl play to exercise its potential magic, there must be beguiling charm and a contagious affection. Farrow and Perkins project neither. Farrow's Phoebe is naive without the endearing thread of home spun innocence. Her vocal habit of putting equal stress on each syllable, word and sentence leads to aural torpor. Perkins' Jason is waspish and petulant with out a trace of roguish lovability...
...penalties proved costly when, on third down and 6 from the Yale 38, St. John hit Callinan with a thread-the-needle aerial down the sidelines and the halfback tip-toed into the end zone with just 25 seconds gone in the second quarter. The 70-yd., 9-play drive ended with Cody missing the PAT, leaving Harvard with an astonishing 13-0 lead...
...been a very tough year as far as wins and losses go," he says, but adds quickly, "It is not always wins and losses that you take out of the program." The comment reveals a constant thread in St. John's conversation about Harvard football: that the experience of playing serves at least as important a position as those vital...