Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard women's lacrosse team, snapping a two-game losing streak, got its offense in gear yesterday and demolished a lackluster Wellesley College squad on its home turf...
...Harvard team opened on the right foot, leading by a narrow one-goal margin for the first 15 minutes of the game until the Minutemen put their offense in gear. Once rolling, the UMass attack whipped off several quick goals to go ahead 6-3 at the half...
Even in the adjoining auxiliary building, separated by four feet of concrete and a stainless steel shield from the deadly gases, the radiation in some spots exceeded 1,000 rems, twice a lethal dose. Yet Edward Houser, a chemistry foreman at the plant, had put on his antiradiation gear, including three pairs of coveralls and a full-face respirator, in order to draw a vital sample of contaminated water to help his colleagues figure out what was happening. He absorbed only four rems during his mission; a total of five is the limit set by the plant for a year...
Brown's performance on the hill typified the second-gear showing of the Crimson. Brownie only pitched the first six innings ("I was just getting my work in. No way I was going the route."), and though the raised his record to 4-0, it was an uncharacteristically medicare outing. The senior captain gave up four runs on six hits, and got the side in order only twice...
...would befoul Long Beach harbor with oil spills and seriously worsen the local smog problem, because merely unloading the oil would release hydrocarbon fumes into the atmosphere. Among other requirements. Sohio had to agree to achieve a net reduction in air pollution by paying $78 million to install antipollution gear at a Long Beach utility plant...