Word: carpetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fifteen minutes and two penalty corners later, Bell rocketed another drive toward the cage, but this ball struck an intermediary: the leg of star link Ann Velie. Velie collapsed on the carpet in a heap, and was helped off the field minutes later with a pancake-sized bruise just above her knee...
...Carpet Problems...
...great intangible in today's contest may prove to be the artificial turf in Michie stadium, an unusual brand on which no Harvard player has ever set foot. The Crimson will be wearing shoes specifically designed for this carpet, but one day of practice may prove insufficient. With rain a possibility, the gridders can only try to avoid the ugly comparison with last year's 41-14 humiliation on the rainsoaked astroturf at Cornell...
...being investigated for obstructing justice, and two first cousins have been accused of following the Executive's lead in accepting diamonds from former Central African dictator Jean-Bedel Bokassa, French President Valerie Giscard d'Estaing nonetheless stands as perhaps the most secure of western leaders, facing a red carpet to reelection...
...seen from the mountains of western Pakistan, Afghanistan is a desert carpet of brown and beige, smudged with dust devils rising to the sky. Up close, it is a land stubbornly clinging to its nationhood and seething with hatred for the Soviet invaders, the shuravi. Almost as soon as we boarded our first bus, at the border, we were asked a question that would be repeated everywhere we went: "What is your country?" Our reply invariably drew smiles and approving nods. "Ah, Amer-eeka. Good," they said...