Word: fell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meet was a tale of frustration, capped by the finish of a scintillating mile race in which Harvard's John Murphy fell just short at the tape, losing to All-American Bruce Bickford by 0.14 seconds despite his personal best time...
...entire week. O'Hare International airport, normally the world's busiest, was closed for a record 42 hours. More than 1,400 of the city's streets were blocked by drifts, many of them 12 ft. high. The estimated 300 million tons of snow that fell on Chicago closed schools for at least a week, halted the city's elevated rail system for days, kept firemen from reaching burning buildings, and forced critically short-staffed hospitals to import 1,000 pints of blood from Los Angeles. The city attached snowplows to garbage trucks, even fire trucks...
...other ideas fell by the wayside during the CUE discussions. An early version of the legislation would have required all seniors to get a crack at a senior Faculty member for a thesis adviser. Bowersock said that innovation simply would not be possible in some departments...
...Randolph did not get on well with earnest, staid Harold McGraw; he also demanded more autonomy for his magazine, which is the company's richest moneymaker, than McGraw was willing to grant. In this battle, Randolph made the mistake of allying with Executive Vice President Donald McGraw, who fell out with his cousin Harold and then quit the company and later left the board under pressure. Since Harold became chairman in 1976, another cousin, John McGraw, has also resigned as executive vice president...
...Rocky Blier fell on Dallas's second onside kick in the last minute and Bradshaw ran out the remaining 22 seconds to secure the 35-31 triumph...