Word: backing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Naismith, who invented the game, never contemplated. Like slam it through the basket from all sorts of odd angles, with such style that by the time he was a high school junior, sportswriters were already calling him "Dr. Dunk." Led by Dominique, the Washington High School Pam Pack won back-to-back state Triple-A league championships and built up a 56-game winning streak, then the longest in the nation. In his senior year, Dominique averaged nearly 30 points and 16 rebounds a game. He was named to Parade 's high school All-America team...
...added: "One thing that came through loud and clear is that there is really wholehearted support for us. We are operating against the background of very strong sympathy for the U.S. Everyone realizes that it is a desperate situation, and it may call for desperate solutions." Still, after arriving back in Washington, Vance said: "No decisions have yet been taken...
...power to Khomeini, but that was enough to inspire a threatening Khomeini mob to surround his house and kill one of his guards. So the battle began, and within a short time Khomeini's officials had been driven from Tabriz. Khomeini has been uncertain how to fight back. At first, he tried words. In a rhetorical broadside, he castigated the rebels as "mere heathens, foreign-led agents whose dossiers are in our hands." He tried to rally the Azerbaijanis to his anti-American crusade. Said he: "Now that we are at war with the great Satan, any gesture...
...Holland decided to try to restore the now dilapidated Mercer Street as the "Georgetown of Trenton." Hearing about the revival, E.J. began visiting the area again and three years ago bought a three-story row house at 126 Mercer Street for $4,500. "Always, always, I wanted to get back to Trenton," she told friends. "It's the best of all worlds. The neighbors are concerned about each other. Living on Mercer Street is perfect for me." She spent $70,000 to restore the 200-year-old house...
...sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and its Women's Auxiliary. They held a raffle, and auctioned off such homey items as stuffed pillows and Lazy Susans. All in all, the citizens raised $5,000 for Fran York, whose Star Ranch was gutted by a blaze back in November. Although Fran needs about $100,000 to get her business going again, $5,000 was a good night's work...