Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite a lack of sleep due to late return from New York and the Millrose Games Friday night, the quarter of Adam Dixon, Thad McNulty, John Murphy and Eric Schuler combined for 28 points of the Crimson's total score...
...story of Adam and Eve should have made the point once and for all: no matter how blissful the garden, there is always a snake in the grass somewhere. Yet the green enticements of Eden die hard, especially among city folk who would not know a primrose from a petunia. The more man-made their environment, the more likely they are to dream of running for shade. In The Beginning Place, her 13th novel, Ursula Le Guin retells this story, one of the oldest in Western literature, in modern dress. She creates two postadolescents who are drowning in personal uncertainties...
Several outstanding individual efforts highlighted the two-day affair. The thinclads' Adam Dixon beat distance sensation Rod Garland of Brandeis in the area's fastest college mile this season, turning in a time of 4:04.45 to Garland...
...Walter Cronkite fielded dozens of calls from people eager to talk with the popular anchorman. One fan claimed he was Cronkite's close friend; he had once written away for an autographed photo of the newsman. Kenneth Mueller, the mayor of Harlan (pop. 5,300), arranged to meet Adam Clymer, a national political reporter for the New York Times. Clymer showed up wearing enough plastic and paper ID cards, press passes and Secret Service credentials around his neck to gain entry to the Oval Office. Says the mayor wryly: "He looked so important, I felt I should get down...
Later, in the semi-finals of the 600-yd. run, star trackster Adam Dixon stumbled once, and was jostled to the ground a second time moments later. He recovered quickly, and continued to run, but finished inches short of third place and a spot in the finals, removing the possibility of any Crimson points in the event...