Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...violent act by a clean-cut Viet Nam veteran and former policeman and fireman shocked San Franciscans. "If White had been a breakfast cereal," said one acquaintance, "he would have to have been Wheaties." But Defense Counsel Douglas Schmidt described White as a manic-depressive with intolerable pressures because of his heavily mortgaged house and his efforts to support a wife and baby from a fast-food stand. The defense made much of White's penchant for wolfing down junk food-Twinkies, Cokes, doughnuts, candy bars-a habit that, the defense claimed, exacerbated his depression and indicated a chemical...
...down the ice as he did in the glory days at Boston, when he set a single-season scoring record of 76 goals and 76 assists. The team's young defenders, Dave Maloney, 22, Ron Greschner, 24, and Mike McEwen, 22, seldom allowed the Islanders a clean second shot. Goal Tender John Davidson, thought to be too big at 6 ft. 3 in. to react swiftly, completed the transition from belly flopper to stand-up defender and kept the Islanders at bay with miraculous saves...
...early days, the neighbors of the Old State House had a grounds committee that took care of the building," explains former University of Connecticut President Homer Babbidge Jr. "Since most of the neighbors are now in skyscrapers, we could not ask them to come out and clean up. So I brought up the idea of asking everyone who had a window view of the grounds to pay a voluntary...
...pitcher John Nurthen, who struck out 11 Harvard batters in Friday's 3-1 loss. Nurthen, the senior righthander who has now fanned 77 in only 69 innings, yielded only seven Harvard hits on the day, while mixing fastball, curveball, and dirtball (Nurthen mysteriously refused to pitch with a clean ball) for his complete game victory...
Freshman Adam Dixon, John Chafee and McNulty gave the thinclads another clean sweep in the (more or less) half-mile race...