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Word: decker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Quarterback Mike Ryan, the Big Red's usual second-quarter signal caller, opened up quickly with a 15-yd. keeper to the 28. On third and six from the 25, from Ryan-to-Brad-Decker fell through the receiver's frozen hands with Terry Trusty covering in the endzone...

Author: By Mark D. Director and David A. Wilson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: Cornell Swamps Crimson, 41-14 | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

...drive then died--again with a Harvard miscue--as Paul Connors fumbled the handoff from Lahti on a slant right. Cornell's Mike Cobb jumped on it at the Harvard 45. The Big Red proceeded to roll once again, racking up big rushing yardage. An incomplete Ryan-to-Decker first-down toss at the Harvard 25 again brought out kicker Rejda for the field goal try. But this time he missed from 32 yards...

Author: By Mark D. Director and David A. Wilson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: Cornell Swamps Crimson, 41-14 | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

They line up at the side of warehouse no. 1 and carry their possessions on their backs and heads. From here, they will be taken by double-decker bus or truck to one of eight residential camps operating in Kowloon. And of course, these are the lucky ones. For every refugee that makes it this far, experts estimate that five have died along...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Waiting for a Home | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

Similarly, at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., Drs. John Decker, Jacob Karsh and colleagues treated four patients-including Rachel-with lymphapheresis (removal of only the white blood cells) three times a week for five to six weeks. In all except two Los Angeles patients, the therapy provided startling improvement. Their stiffness and agony was relieved for a period averaging several months. An unexpected observation: some patients seemed to get help from drugs that had not been doing them much good, or were not expected to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood Purge | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

Built by the West German firm of Neoplan Co. for some $600,000, the 594-ft-long Snoozer consists of two double-decker cars, joined by an accordion-like hinge, on an air-suspended chassis; it can traverse the bumpiest byway. Powered by a 10-cylinder, 400-h.p. Daimler-Benz diesel engine, the superbus can reach 80 m.p.h. and is as high and wide as the aw permits (13.12 ft. by 8.2 ft); a six-footer can walk its length without stooping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Mobile Motel | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

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