Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sighting and drove straightway to Salisbury, Mass. Four Maryland enthusiasts drove all night to the site. One businessman winged in from Los Angeles. Friends desperately tried to get word to an expert vacationing in Africa to return at once. As the week wore on, cars with an array of license plates from across the nation flocked to Salisbury. Battalions of observers armed with telescopes, cameras dwarfed by huge telephoto lenses, sketch pads and binoculars took up daily vigils. They lined the sea wall along one side of an estuary of the Merrimack River and the state beach opposite, eyes trained...
...tongue-in-check jocularity continues. According to Harvey the Classics are a protest against the orthodox tradition of the other teams the players have played on. Despite the incredible array of antics and irreverence displayed in the Classics circuit. Harvey said. "The squad is a dedicated ball club of strong players. I'm thoroughly impressed with their ability to rally and play good ball against very good teams...
...states, and for a time was a large steel fabricator in Southern California. The company has also enjoyed a lucrative and thriving relationship with the U.S. military for the past 30 years. In addition to building emergency landing strips during the Korean War, the company has constructed an extensive array of airstrips in such Far Eastern locations as Okinawa, Taiwan, Thailand and South Viet...
...triumph as the first woman ever to head a political party in Britain. Winning seven votes more than the mandatory majority of 139, Mrs. Thatcher, who had toppled former Prime Minister Edward Heath from his ten-year reign as Conservative Party chief the week before, soundly defeated a formidable array of four male challengers. Her leading opponent, Party Chairman William Whitelaw, drew only 79 votes...
Harvard University's economics department has some 60 able faculty members, including two Nobel prizewinners and the ubiquitous John Kenneth Galbraith and John Dunlop, who is due to be named Secretary of Labor. This array of talent alone should make the department second to none. Apparently that is not the case. One of the Nobel laureate economics professors, Russian-born Wassily Leontief, 68, has announced that, after 44 years on the faculty, he will resign from Harvard this summer to teach at New York University. His reasons for departing: the department's curriculum is "too narrow" and theoretical...