Word: ground
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson also dominated other aspects of thecontest, claiming 20 more ground balls than itsopponent and winning 12 more faceoffs. In man-upsituations, Harvard scored at a 50 percent pace (2for 4), while Holy Cross had no luck in fouropportunities...
...position 40 ft. above the other divers, Robertson reacted with instincts that had been honed by 1,700 jumps during time away from his job as an AT&T engineer in Phoenix. He straightened into a vertical dart, arms pinned to his body, ankles crossed, head aimed at the ground in what chutists call a "no-lift" dive, and plummeted toward Williams at a speed of around 200 m.p.h. The effort was like "trying to catch a football that was flopping down the road at 40 m.p.h.," said Bill Rothe, Williams' fiance, who watched from the ground...
...bloodshed began when a hand grenade came sailing out of the back of a truck as it sped past a police parade ground in Soweto, the huge black township outside Johannesburg. The blast killed one black trainee and wounded 64 others. Six hours later, a bomb exploded under a parked car in the white suburb of Mayfair, shattering windows and starting a fire...
...controversy underscored the growing dilemma of waste disposal in the U.S. In Islip and hundreds of other towns across the country, landfills teeming with accumulated trash are leaching their wastes deep into the ground, threatening to contaminate underground water supplies. Big cities such as New York, Detroit, Miami and Chicago have begun burning part of their garbage, thus saving the water but running the risk of polluting...
...existence and the first to play the game with American League ballplayers, consists mostly of New York City journalists and writers. Tony Lukas of the Palukas has won Pulitzers both for his reporting for the New York Times and for his recent book on Boston race relations, Common Ground. One of the Amaros' owners (most teams have two), Dave Rubin, is co-director of the Center for War, Peace and the News Media at New York University. There are editors and writers for TIME, Newsweek, GQ, Fairchild Publications and Random House, as well as a couple of authors...