Word: firstness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early going when they discovered in the early going when they discovered Robert Taylor was wearing a different number than the program listed...Mannix was particularly impressive in the debut, tied for the team lead in rebounds and a game-high nine assists. For the record, he scored the first points of the Harvard season...
Ohira's blunder shattered the precarious coalition of personal allegiances that cemented the LDP. The party itself in not a unified party at all, but a composite of different factions, groups of Diet members who give loyalty first to one prominent leader, second...
...guards smashed the barrier, screaming obscenities into whirring television cameras. Ohira himself blocked Diet votes on the premiership three times, holding out to retain his power while the Diet remained paralyzed. After futile attempts at compromise with Fukuda, Ohira retained his seat by a mere 17 votes in the first runoff premier election in Japan's short parliamentary history...
Heavyweight Jim Phills wasted no time establishing himself as a force to be reckoned with. The former Canadian Junior champion chased his first man right off the mat with a pin at the 42-second mark. Power bowed to finesse in the next round when Phills notched another win, taking less than five minutes to pound his competitor with his array of upper body moves. His next match pitted him against Trenton State's 300-pound heavyweight but Phills used his skills wisely and cruised by another freshman stalwart, 16-8. Andy McNerney battled his way to the second...
...Norway and prohibited the importation into the United States of prunes, shredded wheat, ice skates, bow ties and corduroy, was the last straw for conventional American government. An angry mob forced the "Horrible Hundredth" Congress out of the country, and Walter Cronkite routed John-John Kennedy in the first video-election to become the first Anchorman of the United States...