Word: banging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...began with a bang and seems likely to end with a whimper. The bang: the gunshots fired at Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981, by Turkish Terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca. The whimper: Italian Prosecutor Antonio Marini's recommendation last week that three Bulgarian defendants charged with complicity in the attack be acquitted on the technical ground of "insufficient evidence." If the court heeds Marini's advice when it hands down its verdict this month, the result will be a stunning blow to the * "Bulgarian Connection" theory, which maintained that Bulgarian intelligence services organized the papal attack...
...They're a big team and they'll try to bang us up," Harvard forward Lane MacDonald says...
...Cornell game was great because we won 11-3," Barakett says. "But I didn't have to do much, just stand in front of the net and bang home rebounds. I think there's an emphasis too much on points. My best games are those where I work hard on every shift and do all the little things. Not scoring necessarily, but making good passes and hustling...
...American view of the future, of course, had always been exceptionally hopeful. But once that whiz-bang optimism was hitched to a 20th century faith in technology, popular notions of the future became specific and potent, all the more so as fantasy antidotes to the Depression. A gyroplane for every family! Aluminum sidewalks! Houses made entirely of Bakelite! During the late 1920s and early '30s, a remarkable new aesthetic took hold: for an object to look modern, it had to look as if it had been retrieved from the future. Among a good many designers, sentimental nostalgia for the picture...
...briefness and the danger of the flybys, Astro-1 could actually end up gleaning more information about Halley's than the probes do. "Our mission may not be as dramatic," says Knox Long, a Johns Hopkins University scientist on the Astro project, "but we're getting the most bang for the buck...