Word: bottoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson tied the score in the bottom half of the inning when Co-Captain Nancy Prior drew a one-out bases loaded walk from Jumbo pitcher Tracy Cleverdon. But Harvard left the bases loaded, a problem which was to plague them throughout the rest of the game...
Kari Meylor never knew what hit her. The eleven-year-old skier was standing at the bottom of a hill, her back to the slope, at Winter Park, Colo., last Feb. 17. Suddenly another skier, Howard Hidle, 31, came hurtling down the hill. He barreled into Kari, the force of the collision throwing him 20 ft. into a stack of ski racks. Kari died the next day. A week after that incident, Terrence Coghlan, 38, crashed into Russell Wittman, 8, in Steamboat Springs, Colo., shattering the boy's right...
BOOKS: Getting to the (false) bottom of Orson Welles...
Unlike previous biographies, Citizen Welles gets to the bottom -- or should one say, false bottom -- of the man. At one level the book projects an old- world Promethean hero thundering against authority and convention. But conveyed with equal weight is an impresario of the self in the American maverick tradition of Charles Ives, Ezra Pound and even Mark Twain's the King and the Duke...
...Navy started training dolphins more than 20 years ago. At first they were given benign missions like retrieving objects from the sea bottom and helping in underwater-rescue efforts. Inevitably, however, it occurred to military planners that the highly intelligent dolphins, which can swim at speeds of up to 26 m.p.h., dive more than 1,000 ft. and find a vitamin capsule while blindfolded, might be turned into underwater patrols...