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...season-high eighth straight victory for Boston, which remained undefeated in the playoffs, and its 32nd in a row at home. Game 2 of the best-of-seven series is scheduled for Boston Garden tonightt...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Bird's 40 Points Leads Celts Over Bucks | 5/6/1987 | See Source »

...available only by special arrangement with the center's director, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies Robert W. Thompson. However, the collections are open year round to the public (2-5pm every day except Monday), as are the gardens (2-6pm). the center is located at 1703 32nd Street, NW in Washington...

Author: By David M. Lazarus, | Title: The Sun Seldom Sets On Harvard's Empire | 3/25/1987 | See Source »

Especially inventive are Nabokov's condensed metaphors, like those in the poetry of imagists such as Ezra Pound. Eerie images flash through the half-aware mind. In the midst of a frenzy of frustrated desire, the protagonist fleetingly notes that the morning's newspaper is dated the 32nd. When the sleepy little girl is led into the hotel, she watches a "doubling cat" through her blurred vision...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: `Fire of My Loins'--With a Douse of Water | 11/6/1986 | See Source »

...Well, not quite, but after a successful trial run, gaggles of geese will soon begin guard duty at American military installations in West Germany. Eventually, 900 of the squawking waterfowl, in platoons of six to 40, will take up posts at 30 sites run by the U.S. Army's 32nd Air Defense Command. The idea is not as ludicrous as it may seem. With their acute sense of hearing, geese when startled sound the alarm by hissing, honking loudly and flapping their wings. Indeed, the ancient Romans used geese as guards. The web-footed sentinels are said to have saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Enter the Goose Patrol | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...personnel, who were known to be present at Surt. But the U.S. had quietly informed Moscow of its intentions in advance. Says one Navy source, referring to the placement of Gaddafi's "line of death": "We told the Soviets explicitly what we intended to do, including transiting below the 32nd parallel. They didn't have to read between the lines." When the attacks were launched, the Soviets apparently were not around. "Maybe they were taking a coffee break," said one official wryly. The Soviets had one communication ship anchored at Surt and kept it lit up like a country carnival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sailing in Harm's Way | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

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