Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tide was turning. The races were closer and Dartmouth started catching up with strong performances in the 100-yd. breaststroke and the 100-yd. butterfly. Diana Borden finished sixth in the breaststroke and Harvard was shut out of the top eight in the butterfly...
Dinner was finished. Because they had eaten so well, the four children of Mr. and Mrs. Frans Bergs in the southern Dutch town of Maastricht were granted a favorite treat for dessert: big, golden Jaffa oranges from Israel. Unexpectedly, the children complained about the taste. "When we took a closer look," Mrs. Bergs said later, "we discovered small, silver-colored globules inside." The children were rushed to a hospital to have their stomachs pumped; police summoned to investigate erroneously assumed that Mr. Bergs had tried to poison his family. But Dutch health officials began a nationwide search, and by week...
...exceptions, the album falls apart in the on-stage performances. The exceptions are the title track, which opens the album and is very good indeed--a song about growing up and changing, and the physical and spiritual traveling one has to do along the way--and the record's closer, a remake of the Zodiacs' mid-1960s hit, "Stay." In between, the songs are disappointing. "The Load-Out," a tribute to Browne's roadies, is nothing less than spectacularly dumb. Lyrically inane as well as musically torpid, the song includes such unbearably bad lines...
...designed to cover the world's oceans from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Its parabolic radar antenna scanned the seas for ship movement, and its radio transmitters relayed the collected information to Soviet ground stations. But in mid-December, Cosmos 954 began to droop in its orbit, slipping closer to earth with each revolution. The Soviets sent the satellite a radio command that should have caused it to separate into three sections, with the nuclear core soaring into an orbit up to 800 miles high, where it could circle for centuries-and yet still remain a lethal hazard...
...Raiders, views the move to Missouri as a boon to his career, however costly it may be. Says he: "The coaching profession is a very precarious one anyway. The same people that love you will fire you. But I'm sure going to read my contracts a bit closer...