Word: action
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard (5-8 overall, 2-3 Ivy) dropped its second straight game. The Crimson fell to Dartmouth, 1-0, in Ivy League action last Sunday. B.C. raised its record...
...gear of the 19th century hardly lent itself to instant coverage. In the cumbersome wet-plate process, which became the norm in the mid-1850s, pictures were formed on a sheet of glass that had to be coated with an emulsion just before the exposure, then developed at once. Action shots were ruled out by the lengthy exposure times, several seconds or more. And while history might be made at night, photographs almost never were. Flash powder did not come into use until the 1880s...
...only feasible action was to write off the entire weekend and gawk at the tourists, visiting college students and wistful alums. And listen--to the hi-fi din of dining-hall parties, to the crunch of empty beer cans against foreheads, and to roommate talk...
...House was expected to approve the measure today after yesterday's consideration of the California request by the Appropriations Committee. Swift Senate action was also anticipated, because the money was attached to a bill that needs enactment before Thursday to avert a government shutdown...
...dispatch American troops to snatch the dictator and spirit him back to the U.S., where he is wanted on drug-trafficking charges. The White House in turn scolded Congress for trying to micromanage a fast-moving crisis and for hypocritically turning hawkish after earlier rejecting Administration plans for covert action against the strongman. There is plenty of blame to go around...