Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sunday evening. Sanjiv from Torrance makes it into the semifinals. So do nine others-an extra $500 for each of them. The big winner is lanky Dan Voll of Illinois, who raised $7,000 to fight alcoholism in Rockford, writes youth editorials for the local TV station and presides over his student government. His father works full time for the Boy Scouts of America. With five brothers and sisters, Dan needs the $10,000 scholarship very much. After a standing ovation, he closes his acceptance speech by saying, "If there's a word that sums up what Dan Voll...
...compressed between the water covering the reactor's core and the top of its steel housing. Acting like a lid on a pressure cooker, the bubble was maintaining high temperatures and pressures. NRC officials warned that there was a very remote but frightening possibility that the bubble would grow big enough to block the flow of water. In that case, the temperature in the core could rise high enough (3,000°) to begin a meltdown, which would require the large-scale evacuation...
...intake of any contaminated air. To prevent looting, Mayor Robert Reid imposed a 9 p.m.-to-7 a.m. curfew. The Red Cross was ready for any full-scale evacuation. It was no new thing, in a way; the town had been cleared during several recent floods, dating from the big one of 1972. Across the river, tiny Goldsboro (pop. 600) was virtually a ghost town...
...would have preferred to have the opportunity to respond to the report before it was released," Thomas O'Brien, financial vice president, said yesterday. "There is a big difference between accountability and accounting," he said, adding, "We think we have been very responsible...
...nothing about it--mushrooms into "a prolonged war with extensive casualties." It seems that some of our representatives--who never speak in terms of the Vietnam debacle--forgot that the Department of Defense analysts who prepared these reports are the same ones hwo put us "waist deep in the Big Muddy...