Word: fell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then the bottom fell out. Six straight losses. Some of them close, some of them ugly. All of them frustrating...
...answering machine. After three unanswered rings, the machine would kick in, and there was no way to change the setting. Since our room had new desks and chairs that fit snugly into each other, we knew that our answering machine would be a problem the day I fell out of my chair backwards trying to answer the phone before the machine...
...phone there, too. But it works perfectly, always getting connected right where it's supposed to when it's supposed to. It has a long cord that stretches to wherever I want to go. And you could hear a pin drop through the line, if one ever fell. We don't even own an answering machine at home...
Ciavaglia stuffed in 15 goals--including a hat trick against Lake Superior State in the NCAA quarterfinals--but setting up the shots was his specialty. His 48 assists fell just two short of the Harvard season record set by Joe Cavanagh...
...easy to see why a slim, self-effacing Englishman named Thomas Edward Lawrence became one of this century's most ballyhooed celebrities. Out of the appalling carnage of World War I -- the mud-caked anonymity of the trenches, the hail of mechanized death that spewed from machine guns and fell from airplanes -- there emerged a lone Romantic, framed heroically against the clean desert sands of Arabia. U.S. journalist Lowell Thomas was the first to recognize that Lawrence's wartime work -- organizing disparate Arab tribes into armed revolt against the occupying Turks, allies of Germany -- had pop-myth possibilities. Thomas' publicity...