Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been working quite hard all week to improve our form and execution in regard to blade work." Wisconsin coach Randall Jablonic said, "and we hope to be close enough to Harvard to take advantage of any mistakes they make...
...course, it should be a very close meet," McCurdy said. "But if we can pick up our expected total in the field events, and hold our own in the distance events we should have a good chance," he added. He listed the distance events, discus, and jumping events as those which would be the most accurate indicators of the meet's outcome...
...Close Meet...
...SUMMER of 1968 was Alaska's worst fire season in ten years: forest fires burned close to a million acres of land in three months...
...Alaska and some other states, such damage is not very extensive. Many Alaskan fires burn so slowly that even spiders can outrun them; very little wildlife is destroyed. With permafrost so close to the surface, it often takes trees 70 years to reach a diameter of four inches. They are "useful" only for pulp, but the nearest roads for a hypothetical pulp mill are often hundreds of miles from any particular forest. The fires' contribution to air pollution is only temporary, and the grass and moss burn so in- completely that humans' fire trenches may cause as much erosion...