Word: across
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...race for the Chick Willing Points Trophy, which measures a team's success across the races, Radcliffe finished in fourth, behind first-place Brown and Princeton and Virginia, who tied for second place...
...race for the Chick Willing Points Trophy, which measures a team's succes across the races, Radcliffe finished in fourth, behind first-place Brown and Princeton and Virginia, who tied for second place...
...against Serbia seemed a polite affair, marked by strict rules of engagement, pinpoint attacks on army units and lots of examples of NATO planes returning to base with all their bombs because they couldn't be sure of dropping their payloads on the right place. Last week that changed. Across 70% of Yugoslavia, elevators creaked to a halt, faucets dribbled, stoves cooled and TVs blackened. Traffic lights and tram lines were out, and pump failures forced Serbs to the Danube River for water to flush their toilets. And as the bombing expanded, so did the civilian casualties. On Friday night...
...Starting at 5:00 and continuing for 20 hours, a legion of twisters--more than 40, coming so fast that the exact count is uncertain--scourged the region. One, a behemoth originating near Chickasha, may be historic. Not for the width of its funnel--although at nearly a mile across, that was extraordinary--but a mobile Doppler radar from the University of Oklahoma clocked its peak wind speed at 318 m.p.h., which would make it the strongest wind recorded on Earth...
...excited about the release of "The Phantom Menace"--I figured I could see it sometime in August, when the shows are no longer sold out--it pleased me more than I will say to find out that due to some tricky Moviephone tactics by the guys across the hall, (the same ones who took scissors to my copy of Time), I now have a ticket for next Saturday, two days after it is released...