Word: backed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contain a cloud. For one, Southern California now has something to do besides hunt for gas stations: Angels' attendance was up nearly 50% from last year to 2,523,575, one of the best home gates in league history. For another, some of those ailing pitchers may be back. In the season's final week, Tanana and the ever inconsistent Ryan pitched strong games. So did Knapp and Dave Frost. It was, in fact, the first time since 1975 that the staff had turned in four complete games in a row. Says Bobby Grich: "Our pitching staff...
...allotted the Olympics only 64 hours. Next summer, to get back its $87 million, NBC will throw out almost everything else on its schedule for two weeks and devote 150 hours to events in Moscow. In 1984 ABC plans to raise the total to 200 hours. It will also have a tune advantage in Los Angeles that NBC will not have in Moscow: the West Coast is three hours behind the East, so daylight events will attract viewers in the East during prime-time hours. By that time, viewers may have ODed on athletics and turned to reruns of Laverne...
Standard operating procedure in all branches of the service is to keep pregnant women at their jobs as long as possible. Then they are transferred to light duty or put on sick leave. In practice, different commanders make different decisions. An Army colonel, just back from Korea, said pregnant soldiers "were making the forced marches with all their equipment." Yet some officers try to get such women out of the way early. Says Rear Admiral James R. Hogg, of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations: "The bottom line is, we'll get her transferred before she becomes...
...events, after the poolside strategy session at Camp David we flew back to the capital, and in the late afternoon Nixon invited John Mitchell to join Bebe Rebozo and me for a cruise down the Potomac on the presidential yacht Sequoia. The tensions of the grim military planning were transformed into exaltation by the liquid refreshments, to the point of some patriotic awkwardness when it was decided that everyone should stand at attention while the Sequoia passed Mount Vernon-a feat not managed by everybody with equal success. On the return to the White House, Nixon invited his convivial colleagues...
...week that Laird had feared," and dropped sharply after that. At the time, Kissinger estimated that the action would delay Hanoi's next major offensive by six to eight months; Sir Robert Thompson, the British expert on guerrilla warfare, figured that it would set the North Vietnamese back by as much as two years. Thompson proved to be right. But that did not help to defuse a gathering explosion at home. The May 4 killing of four students at Kent State University by rifle fire from Ohio National Guardsmen proved to be a match thrown into a powder...