Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last night, before a crowd of 800 at the first event held in the Briggs facility, the Crimson humiliated its travel-weary opponents with a display of roundball ability that bodes well for Harvard's upcoming regular season...
Even with Joe Carrabino, the team's pro returning scorer, in street clothes because of a pre-season injury, the cagers put on an offensive display that brought a smile to the face of Coach Frank McLaughlin. Harvard shot an amazing 63 percent from the floor, thanks to sharp passing and alert transition play...
Brezhnev enjoyed entertaining foreign visitors at his dacha outside Moscow, where he could display his prowess as a hunter, and at his luxurious summer home in Yalta, where the Olympic-size swimming pool was shielded from the wind by thick glass walls that glided back and forth at the press of a button. Early on, he spoke to state visitors of his interest in splashy automobiles. Taking the hint, they plied him with examples of the motorized best that Western technology could offer. Brezhnev was a notoriously bad driver; yet at one time his stable included a Rolls-Royce...
...Fund (V.V.M.F.) persuaded Congress to assign them two acres on the Mall, got 500,000 donors to give $7 million and managed to attract 1,421 entries to a professionally judged design competition. V.V.M.F. wanted a "reflective and contemplative" memorial with an "emphasis ... on those who died"-including a display of their names-and "without political or military content." Maya Ying Lin, then a Yale architecture student, won the competition with her subtle, somber design, which looks like manicured stone ramparts: two angled walls, each 250 ft. long, sloping down into the ground from a height...
Although the exhibition is devoted to business, it does not neglect the public sector. A "Great Talking Face of Government" becomes so frenzied while calling for ever more regulation that the display blows out its circuits and stops. Explains a puppet to observers: "It's overworked...