Word: bays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ATLANTA--On Super Tuesday, Frank T. Caprio '88 was elected as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island. And Wednesday night, Caprio was in Atlanta, casting his vote for Bay State governor and Democratic nominee Michael S. Dukakis...
...began in the Missouri-Mississippi watershed all the way to the Gulf," said Gilman. That was caused by a split in the jet stream, which usually carries storms across California into the Midwest, sucking moisture up from the Gulf. But this year its larger current swung north to Hudson Bay, its lesser branch south to Mexico, leaving the midlands arid and hot. Now, after nearly three months of deprivation, the great Missouri-Mississippi watershed has fused into a giant arc of aching thirst. The heartland bower of James Whitcomb Riley and Edgar Lee Masters, of Indiana and Illinois, has received...
...such events, the food of honor is a local product, Monterey being touted as the calamari capital of the world. Each year about 10,000 tons are harvested from Monterey Bay. About 90% of the catch is exported, mainly to Japan and Europe. Not only do such fairs publicize the product, they are also vehicles for other purposes: fund raising, profit making, good-natured flag waving and communal celebration...
...take home and hang in their rooms. In the best competitive spirit, shouts of "Look at mine! Look at mine!" brought high praise from parents. Exhausted with outdoor activities, they gathered in an auditorium to watch a skit titled Billy the Squid: a Calamari Western, produced by the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Eager volunteers wearing minimal white cotton tentacle costumes were cast as a school of squid. The school's role was to appear to be a large underwater mass and thus discourage the bad-guy shark. This is apparently one of the squid's classic defensive tactics, as is shooting...
...mere thing. The Lakers won the N.B.A. championship in 1980, 1982, 1985 and last season, but repeating consecutively had become the hobgoblin of the industry. Not even the Boston Celtics had done it in 19 years. For the Lakers, the chance to regard themselves as the Celtics, the Green Bay Packers and the New York Yankees came down to a seventh game, their third of the spring...