Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...continued and expanded only if the government curbs right-wing killers. But by week's end Reagan was promising to try to work something out with Congress. As to the commission's recommendation for a fiveyear, $8 billion program of economic aid, Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd grumbled, "It is highly questionable for a nation that is racking up $200 billion-a-year deficits to consider pouring $8 billion into Central America...
Annie Wilson, Jessica Hall and Debbie Zimic scored in double figures and Shannon Byrd set a pool record in the three-meter dive to lead the Harvard women's swimming team past B.C., 82-58 last night at Chestnut Hill...
...Byrd's score of 266.8 broke the previous pool three-meter record by four points...
...bomb that ripped into a corridor outside the Senate chamber last week was eerily predictable. "I was sort of anticipating something," said a shaken Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd, who lost his office doors to the blast, "especially in light of other occurrences that have taken place around the world recently...
...time to interrupt a previously announced night session on defense appropriations. Merely by chance, the Senate had adjourned early. Had the lawmakers lingered as late as expected, said Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, "undoubtedly there would have been grave injury and perhaps loss of life." Instead, the explosion tore Byrd's doors off their hinges, wrecked a portion of the Republican cloakroom near by and damaged valuable artwork, including oil portraits of the legendary Senators Webster, Clay and Calhoun. The cost of the destruction was estimated...