Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wednesday and Thursday crept by, U.S. Air Force Reserve helicopters and high-tech detection gear were committed to the hunt. An infrared body-heat detector was issued to a ground crew, and a night-vision camera was fixed to the nose of one civilian chopper. Yet nothing seemed to help. Anguished parents and friends tried to take comfort from seasoned mountain watchers like Lieut. Don Vickars of the Clackamas County sheriff's office. Said Vickars: "We had a case in 1975 where three kids survived through a storm in a snow cave for 14 days...
...first football game (vs. McGill in 1874), the first large sports arena (the Stadium), the first catcher's mask (invented by Fred Thayer, Class of 1878), the first real intercollegiate athletic contest (Harvard crew vs. Yale crew on Lake Winnipesaukee, August...
...Crew is a special sport for Harvard partly because the first Harvard-Yale crew race, held on August 3, 1852, was the first inter-collegiate event in America, the Varsity Club director says. Harvard won that race by four lengths, but thanks in part to the Friends of Harvard Rowing, has stayed way ahead of other collegiate rowing programs ever since...
...dinner, and workers at the Kennedy Space Center would gather for a ceremony. At both events, speakers would celebrate the 25th anniversary of American manned space flight and chronicle the quarter-century of achievements since Alan Shepard's historic suborbital flight on May 5, 1961. After Challenger's seven crew members perished on Jan. 28, plans for a more somber observance continued; a reminder of past successes might restore NASA's morale...
Returning to his paperwork, the marshal pulled out the fruits of his labor thus far, and in the doing made the point that he inherited a bureaucratic mess. The files are tidy now, and thorough, as is personnel. McNeely replaced the old crew with six new deputies. "Look here," he said, going back to the early entries in one journal. "Now look here," he said, flipping to recent jottings covering a like period of time. "Four pages of tickets rather than that one little dinky one. We had officers start doing their jobs. That's what happened...