Word: darting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bitter six-week power struggle that saw China's four top radical leaders, including Mao Tse-tung's widow Chiang Ch'ing, disgraced and placed under arrest. Peking editors waxed absolutely poetic about the new spirit of China: "Everywhere in our motherland, orioles sing and swallows dart...
DARTMOUTH at CORNELL: Today is the first day of the rest of Dart-mouth's football season, and it has fallen upon the Big Red of Cornell to be the first team the Big Green runs into after last weekend's miserable loss to Harvard. Curt Oberg will have Ithaca crying for mercy. Dartmouth 38, Cornell...
...field goal that sealed things up, coming four minutes into the fourth quarter and giving Harvard a 30-14 bulge. Thoughts of an amazing comeback were further squelched when replacement quarterback Tim Davenport speared Steve Saxon in the corner of the endzone four minutes later with an eight-yard dart to close out the scoring...
...that, and the $1,000 he now receives for an evening's performance, his life has changed little. His beloved black 1941 Buick sedan and a '65 Dodge Dart are the only family automobiles. "I might like to walk on a little bit nicer rug," he admits. "But if I get caught up in big cars and fancy homes, I'll lose touch with the people. My music is simple honkytonk. It's nothing too eloquent 'cause I'm a simple...
...fast but true. A cesta is ribbed, however, and the patterned wicker puts more English on the ball than can be found in most freshman college classes. It is as though Nolan Ryan's 101-m.p.h. fastball had suddenly turned into a 150-m.p.h. knuckleball. The players dart to line up the angle, leap for the catch and, elbow locked, sweep the ball back to the wall...