Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small colony of new tents, down sleeping bags and gas stoves, a lone voice lilted to one tired guitar, singing, "Tenting Tonight." Eastern Mountain Sports must be celebrating tonight, I thought. I read somewhere that wherever, and whenever, a strong wave of student activism surges forth, camping stores crop up like picnic ants at a State Fair...
STARBOARD SPLINTERS: Rumor around Newell that Washington's lights, the cream of the Western crew crop, may come East for the Sprints. Crimson squad drooling for Huskie match-up and crack at mythical national title...
Last year's crop of sad-eyed Niemans warned back in September that the decompression had been painful, even for those headed back to the hometown Boston Globe. And although at least two fellows per class are catapulted to instant fame, others long bear the scars of re-entry: getting slapped with night re-write in Detroit, punishment weather stories in Texas...
...soldiers used to climb for hours in the hot sun to reach the marijuana and opium poppies hidden in the Mexican Sierra Madre. Then they had to hack up the crop with machetes and burn it. Starting in 1975, the U.S. made their work easier by providing blue and white helicopters (Bell 212s and 206s), purchased at a cost of about $21 million; some of the helicopters were used to spray herbicides from a few feet above the ground. Others served as gun ships, hovering above to shoot it out with the peasants who took up arms to defend their...
This year's crop of American rookies is the finest in the league's history. Greg Makowski, 21, is a rugged fullback for the Caribous, and Billy Gazonas is a fleet, slick and tiny (5 ft. 5 in., 135 lbs.) playmaker at midfield for the Tulsa Roughnecks. The new American kids do not stand in awe of most of the Europeans. Says 20-year-old Gary Etherington, a Cosmos forward: "I don't see that much difference between us and them, except for the big stars." And Big Star Chinaglia is a fan of the young Americans...