Word: dented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yankees made their only dent on Perry when Ron Blomberg and Craig Nettles singled to open the second. Chris Chambliss doubled them home and then scored on Thurman Munson's single...
...haven't made a dent in any of my debts yet," protested Watergate Witness John Dean last week. "I don't even know when one receives money after a lecture. I imagine it will be months before it comes in." Though he is pleading poverty, Dean has announced that he will end his five-week lecture tour on March 15. Not even offers of $6,000 per speech, which he claims to have received, will keep Richard Nixon's old nemesis from abandoning the college circuit. Instead, Dean plans to begin work on a book about Watergate...
...coaches and teachers overtime and had to cancel all after-school sports, drama, music and forensics programs, everybody pitched in to help. The coaches agreed to work one year without overtime pay, and private donations of $70,000 rescued some of the cultural programs. That barely put a dent in the board's $4 million deficit, but Rock Impresario Bill Graham may yet save the day. He has scheduled a benefit concert of ten major acts (including the Jefferson Starship, Joan Baez and Santana) in the city's 59,626-seat Kezar Stadium. The concert, on March 23, is called...
Even scientists sympathetic with the institute's philosophy are highly skeptical that such techniques can make much of a dent in the world's enormous food needs. Nor do they all agree with the new alchemists' doomsday vision of the future of the Green Revolution. But, as the journal Science points out, there is no doubt that Todd and McLarney, in their idealistic quest, have shown that there may be a place alongside traditional agriculture "for the arks and other food-producing devices created in the new alchemists' crucibles...
...monotonous, and when Getty decided to move permanently from England to his Malibu, Calif., estate this spring, he took his life in his hands. "I will go on a jumbo," he said with bravado, "and I shall probably treat myself to a first-class ticket," which should not dent his fortune, once estimated as $1.5 billion. The usually secretive Getty was surprisingly carefree: "I don't intend to take any pills and I don't drink much-just a glass of wine. Alcohol was never one of my problems...