Word: ground
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Katsias will get help this year from senior sweeper Leelee Groome, who possesses the longest ground ball in the league and is famous for her aggressive game. Lookout for Leelee...
...defense as thrilling--and dangerous--as parachuting with an umbrella. If the ball is heading toward the Harvard goal, you can bet Groome will be charging after it. And if she gets a hold of the ball with her stick, beware. It will either go a mile on the ground, or fly into the air in wicked line-drive fashion, daring an opposing forward to stand...
Five months before the Iowa caucuses, the campaign remains eerily formless and wide open. A TIME poll finds that many Democrats express doubts about the party' s candidates, while George Bush has regained lost ground among Republicans. -- Ultraconservatives pummel the President. -- In Pennsylvania, a controversial search for a rape suspect touches off a civil rights flap...
...transatlantic crossings, where planes cannot be monitored by ground-based radar, airliners are assigned parallel tracks that can be at the same altitude but are 60 miles apart. To make sure they are on course, crews are expected to log their position at waypoints based on latitude and longitude and to report it by radio to air controllers. At best, this could alert the monitoring stations to any developing danger, and the controllers could suggest changes in course, altitude or speed...
...controls, Boucher assumed that the pilot had dropped into the Atlantic and asked for a Coast Guard search. But when he made an emergency landing at Portland International Jetport, Boucher discovered happily that Dempsey was still hanging on to the door. His head had missed striking the ground by 12 inches. He suffered only a bruised wrist...