Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact of the matter is that the swimsuit issues have become institutions, and none is bigger--or better--than...
...would have sent the booster cartwheeling wildly through space. Bob Truax, a retired engineer who directed the Thor missile program in the 1950s, agrees. "After the explosion, they were continuing on a fairly normal trajectory," he says. "Even if you get a small leak, that hole would get bigger in a matter of seconds, and you'd have hell in a handbasket very quickly...
...chosen from among more than 11,000 applicants to make history is entirely ordinary. Nobody aboard Challenger was ordinary. But the other six crew members were our representatives too. Like the teacher, their new colleague, they were citizens pursuing careers. Their jobs involved bigger risks and greater sacrifices than many others. But when they went home they found spouses and children, friends, phone calls to return, the ups and downs of daily living. When they wanted to relax, they played the saxophone or the piano, they painted oil pictures or jogged...
With more participants, prizes, and more money pledged to benefit HAND (Harvard and Neighborhood Development) than in any other year, the fourth annual Currier House Dance Marathon "will be much bigger than it's ever been," says William E. Pittman Jr. '86, chairman of the dance committee...
Fortunately, this story does have a happy ending. Remember that Fusco is a hero. The 5-ft., 9-in., 175-lb. center is a bigger-than-life athlete whose talents seem to grow to meet the urgency of the moment...