Word: count
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...general, professors at the school of government love to talk to the press, love to see the phrase "Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government" in print. Some say that when people at the Kennedy School are bored, they count the number of references to the school inserted into the Congressional Record. But if someone wants to write about the school's links to Dukakis, they try to downplay the whole thing...
Johnson is a one-game participant of The Streak at Columbia. The squad has lost 42 consecutive contests, but Johnson sees it all through Columbia-blue shaded eyes. Celtics radio announcer Johnny Most doesn't see Larry Bird throw an elbow; Johnson doesn't count the losses piled up before his arrival...
...father declared. "Where'd you launch it, where'd it land?" Kruse told him. The father fell silent, stared at the youngster, then responded in awed tones, "That's five miles." Kruse has tutored so many Kansas kids in the fine art of modeling that he has lost count. He now writes a column for Flying Models, a leading journal for enthusiasts...
...women from the G.D.R. have not lost their stuff -- they should go home with a sizable medal count -- but the rest of the world just seems to be swimming faster these days. Challenges will come from China, Italy and Rumania as well as from old nemeses like Canada, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R...
...fleet of flags and a parade of nations, ancient drums and modern skydivers, the torch, the oath, 88 trumpeters, 144 robots, 2,400 pigeons, 13,600 athletes. Count...