Word: ground
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard-nosed run by flanker Dave Beardsley closed out the scoring with five minutes remaining. Columbia won the ball in a scrummage situation, but misplayed it, leaving the ball on the ground. Beardsley alertly snatched the ball, rambled through three Lion defenders and carried two others into the end zone as he slammed the ball down...
...location on Washington's Mount Alto, ! complaining it was too far from the center of town. The U.S. had a similar gripe about the Soviets' suggested American embassy site high atop the Lenin Hills. By the end of the decade, however, the Soviets had accepted Mount Alto; the high ground may have been far from the action, but it did offer an ideal location for eavesdropping equipment. Meanwhile, the U.S. agreed to build in that soggy spot near the Moscow River, primarily because it was close to the old embassy and only a mile from the Kremlin...
Boston's musical past suggests why an attempt to recognize Boston's music scene and to attribute such importance to it is unlikely to succeed. Twenty years ago, when San Francisco was hailed as the breeding ground for innovative rock music, record executives had similar success in mind for Boston, for no particularly good reason. They convinced Boston musicians--and themselves--that the "Bosstown Sound" was going to be the Next Big Thing. The public didn't buy it, though, and such memorable local bands as Phluph, Ultimate Spinach, and Beacon Street Union found themselves millionaires one month and broke...
Field hockey player Leelee Groome also scored only a single goal. But Groome has the longest ground ball in the league. And when she lifts one in the air, heads duck...
...knew they were a tough team," Baxter said. "I just like to keep the ball down and low and make them hit ground balls...