Word: augustas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a week of practice in South Carolina and a side trip to the Masters in Augusta, Georgia, the Harvard golf team was soundly defeated by Navy at Annapolis on Saturday afternoon...
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...Similarly, a white Augusta, Ga., policeman was acquitted last week on charges of violating the civil rights of a black teen-ager killed in rioting last May. At the height of the riot, in which six blacks were killed, Private William S. Dennis fired a shotgun into a grocery store that was being looted. John W. Stokes, 19, was killed when nine pellets entered his back. The state refused to press charges, but a federal grand jury indicted Dennis, and the Justice Department attempted to prove that the force used in Stokes' death was excessive. The all-white jury...
When Ronald Kley, a research associate for the Maine State Museum in Augusta, wanted a satellite photograph of the state for a museum exhibit, he naturally got in touch with NASA. No luck there, nor with the Weather Bureau or the Air Force. The angles of orbiting U.S. satellites are such that their cameras distort details north of Chesapeake...
...also won the Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for a picture of a Vietnamese mother shepherding her family to safety through a river. Newswriter Frank Frosch, also of U.P.I, resembled Sawada in many ways. Like the photographer, Frosch chose the tough way to cover news. During the recent riots in Augusta, Ga., Frosch was the only reporter able to produce an eyewitness account of police killing a looter. He managed it by dodging black snipers' bullets half the night, police bullets the remainder. His Cambodian reporting was just as firsthand: he would listen to the military briefings, then...