Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rojas trailed nearly all of his teammates and competitors up the first hill of the race, but then got in gear at about the one-mile mark and took the lead. Rojas then increased his lead for the rest of the race, winning finally by about 250 yards...
...start in violent crime earlier this year by acting as a decoy prostitute for her boy friend's gang. After the first mugging, she carefully put her share of the booty-970-into a locked chest in her bedroom at home, next to her old dolls and the gear of her new trade: a wig, tennis shoes and a half-face mask. Then, as she told TIME Correspondent William McWhirter last week, she "just got fed up following the boys." So she branched out on her own, leading three girl friends in the mugging of an old woman, which...
...flow of official and unofficial scientific visitors from the U.S.-Environmental Chief Russel Train, former AEC Chairman Glenn Seaborg and Oceanographer William Nierenberg of the Scripps Institution, to name only a few. One reason for this hospitality is the Kremlin's hope for access to advanced U.S. scientific gear, especially computers. The Russians are also after something else. As one longtime British scientific observer in Moscow put it: "The Soviets want the West to acknowledge that they are a superpower, scientifically as well as economically and militarily, and that they might have something to offer...
Although Drinan was unopposed in the primary, he had workers at every poll on Tuesday and held a mass rally on primary night in an obvious effort to gear up his campaign for the tough November night. Drinan managed to keep himself in the public spotlight all summer as he served as the vocal leader of the Massachusetts delegation to the Democratic National Convention...
...hundred and fifty Cambridge children residents last Thursday shifted their one year-old campaign against loud trucks on residential streets into high gear when they blocked a two-block stretch of Prospect St, north of Central Square and demonstrated for about one hour...