Word: feet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pointer from the right side upped the lead back to four points and his subsequent turnaround shot eight minutes into the game increased Duke's lead to 19-13. Harvard cut the lead to five (22-17) before a Robert Brickey dunk brought the Blue Devil alumni to their feet and ignited...
...novel, in fact, begins with a big bang: the blowing up, by Sikh terrorists, of a jumbo jet, Flight AI-420 from Bombay to London, at 29,002 feet over the English Channel. Two passengers, cartwheeling and conversing, plummet earthward. One is Gibreel Farishta, India's most popular movie star, who is in disguise and fleeing his fame after suffering a life-threatening illness and discovering in the process that there is no God. The other is Saladin Chamcha, a prosperous performer of voice-overs for commercials on British television, returning to his adopted land after a melancholy visit...
...stream of well-chewed Red Man tobacco -- a replacement for his three-pack- a-day cigarette habit -- arcs expertly toward a barely visible target about four feet away. "Right there," he says. "Bull's-eye." It is the last day of 1988. In three weeks James Addison Baker III will become America's next Secretary of State...
...ever-improving freshman, Cathy Griffin, had her best throw of the season: 45'6", only three inches off the school record. Griffin is throwing three-and-a-half feet over what she was throwing this time last year...
Last May, East Cambridge resident Debra McManus looked out in her backyard and saw workers preparing to build a 1530-car garage only nine feet from her property. When McManus and other residents started looking for ways to stop the project, they uncovered a legal nightmare...