Word: balled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter Administration, its own record revealed at least the appearance of confusion and paralysis. The Administration was so preoccupied with the Egyptian-Israeli negotiations that it practically forgot about Iran. Then the White House brought in an outsider, former Under Secretary of State George Ball, to do a crash study. Ball was appalled at the confusion. Even as Brzezinski was urging wholehearted support for the Shah, the President told reporters, "I don't know, I hope so," when asked if he thought the Shah could survive. U.S. dependents in Iran were told to stay there; then they were advised...
...hurried, and the images don't flow into each other. Superman is 100% studio hype; is the public so gullible that it can flock to a film because the studio says it's a hit, because Warner Brothers has the money to shove dolls, shirts, lunchboxes and ball-point pens into an already garish, mindless popular culture? John Williams has composed his worst and most blatantly derivative score, and among the actors, Brando is inexcusably wasted as Superman's father-saint, and Gene Hackman is embarrassing as the campy villain--is it possible that this once-gripping character actor...
Northeastern suffered another setback when its high scoring star, Joy Esper (12 points) injured herself when she fell in an attempt to steal the ball...
Within the first five-and-a-half minutes, Harvard was hit with five travelling calls, not all of which it deserved. The squad turned the ball over 31 times in the game and sank only 17 of its 32 free throw attempts, including 3 for-14 in the first half, statistics that pretty much told the futile story...
Stimpson, a freshman, pulled out her match (15-16, 15-8, 15-10, 15-8) by luring her opponent into a rally, aggressively accelerating the pace, and using the precious extra seconds to put the ball away...