Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Junior Dave Randall rounded out Harvard's victories in the fiendevents as he flew through the high winds to capture first place in the pole vault. Randall cleared 14 ft. 6 in. by a wide margin, obliterating his own personal record of 14 ft. 1 in. He narrowly missed an attempt...
...nation's largest brokerage houses and is in turn 5.6% owned by the Hunt family, announced that it had issued a $100 million margin call on the Hunts and that they could not, or would not, put up this additional cash to protect their position. Wild rumors flew that Bache was about to go under. Stock and commodity prices went into a nosedive. Bache asked the Government's Commodity Futures Trading Commission to close to close the silver market. The commission refused. "Despite the seriousness of the situation," said Chairman James Stone, "certain lines need to be drawn. The primary...
...blood necessary for an operation to excise the spleen: according to his Egyptian doctors, the organ had grown so bloated by midweek that there was a possibility it could burst in a fatal hemorrhage. The terse clinical diagnosis of New York Hospital's Dr. Benjamin Kean, who flew to Cairo on Wednesday to take part in the surgery: "He is not just sick, but very sick...
...Wise Blood belongs to Huston and his star, Brad Dourif as Haze. Dourif was the stuttering Billy Bibbitt of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; he looks like a crazed Don Knotts. His eyes contort wildly, glaring unnervingly, distracting from his rigid nose and hard, flat mouth. Dourif's Haze is grotesque, a little man possessed by a shady demon. He believes in his Church Without Christ not with his soul--which is undeniably Christian--but with his body. It shakes with evangelical passion, with barely controlled violent passion capable of murder. And in an ultimate renouncement of Jesus...
Long before the House of Representatives passed legislation authorizing the creation of the Department of Education, the rumors flew hot and heavy in Washington. President Carter, education insiders believed, would name someone with experience in state education programs to head the department--someone like former New Mexico Gov. Jerry Apodaca, a Chicano, or Mary F. Berry, under secretary in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), a Black woman...