Word: dente
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Carbo was shipped to Cleveland for a $15,000 pocketful of change. Lee walked off the team in protest. He was right too. Carbo was exactly who the Sox needed to send out to face Rich Gossage in the playoff game at the end of the season after Bucky Dent's heartbreaking home...
Research today costs so much that "Harvard really couldn't make a dent financially." Pipkin says. "It's just impossible for them to fund all the experiments...
...many professors at Harvard, retirement barely puts a dent in the usual daily routine; most continue to work out of their Harvard offices, do research and a bit of teaching. But Thomson Professor of Government Arthus Mass isn't content to take his place in this time-worn tradition...
Busing put a dent in the imagined security of these communities, and, as with all innovations, it met resistance. But today, Blacks attend South Boston High, with only one or two quickly-hushed reports of racial scuffles. Blacks, running city wide, were able to gain several seats on the City Council and the school committee...
...helicopters from the aircraft carrier identified the offending vessel as a Soviet nuclear-powered submarine of the Victor class. The 5,000-ton craft was limping home on the surface at a speed of 3 knots, under the escort of a Soviet cruiser flying a salvage flag. A telltale dent marked the spot where the submarine had grazed the bottom of the Kitty Hawk while trying to pass underneath. That is no easy feat; the huge carrier draws 50 feet of water...