Word: flings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anything new about the Irish. That may be why so many writers, most of them Irish, keep on trying. English oppression long ago turned the Irish into sophisticated connoisseurs of futility. Trained to revere heroic martyrs, it is hard for them to resist certain vainglorious failure: another fling at explaining their inexplicable countrymen...
...Fling...
...Brandeis offense was not quite as cohesive, as it entered the second half with a "fling the ball toward the hoop" philosophy. The persistent 'Cliffe squad simply withstood Brandeis's target practice and converted the wild a shots into rebounds and easy fast-break baskets...
Harvard had its toughest time in the folly, losing four bouts. Star Crimson foilman Phillippe Bennet was 1-2, as was John Major, who returned to foil after a brief fling the last few matches at sabre, Larry White, also at sabre...
...that would include Saturn. NASA had just scuttled its even more ambitious "grand tours," which would have taken advantage of the alignment of the outer planets in the late 1970s to send, for example, a single spacecraft past Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, using the gravity of one planet to fling the ship toward the next. But Van Allen stubbornly refused to give up. At his suggestion, imaginative "back-room" trajectory experts at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory showed that a corkscrew turn could get Pioneer to Saturn at no extra cost...