Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Democrats, as a result, openly express admiration for Cliff Hansen. "He has made a complete changeover since he became Governor," says Cheyenne Attorney Walter Phelan, a former Democratic state chairman and onetime state house speaker. "He has been striving mightily to get his party over from its far-right position, more toward center." Of course, he adds, "he isn't moving...
Ramsay's charges do isometric and isotonic exercises to increase their leaping ability (Center Cliff Anderson is only 6 ft. 4 in., but he can jump to a height of 12 ft., has averaged 14 rebounds a game so far this year). And they compensate for their lack of height with a go-go game designed to rattle bigger, slower opponents. On defense, St. Joe's favorite tactic is the "zone press"-a full-court, blanket defense described by one opposition player as "like running into a windmill." The idea, says Ramsay, "is to stop...
against the cliff behind the house...
Since February, the HUC has obtained midnight parietals on Saturdays of foot ball weekends and permanent free interhouse with the 'Cliff'. It has investigated the, Coop tex book question, studied student testimony before the Administrative Board, and laxued a draft report...
Candid as the explanation was, it did not satisfy his customers. "It is really intolerable that power supplies should be inadequate," declared the Times, and other papers agreed. Tongue in cheek, BBC Television Commentator Cliff Michelmore appeared "on behalf of the electrical industry" to report that the blackouts were not "anything like the disgraceful failure of the electric supply in New York last week. Ours were on purpose." As if to prove him right, the Electricity Board's engineer pulled the plug again the next night...