Word: ground
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...however, cannot fulfill the desires of every Harvard weight lifter. Across the river, the Indoor Track and Tennis (ITT) Center houses the training ground for most of Harvard's varsity athletes. But the facilities there cannot satisfy increasing student demand...
Dukakis' press office has repeatedly denied that the governor has begun campaigning for next year's Iowan caucuses, which are considered an important testing ground for determining the potential success of presidential hopefuls...
...three years on the streets. An upper incisor is missing, and his lower teeth jut outward against his lower lip, giving the impression that he can't close his mouth. His baggy pants are about five inches too long and when he walks, their frayed ends drag on the ground. "You know something?" he asks, holding up the bottle. "I wasn't stuck to this stuff until the cold got to me. Now I'll freeze without it. I could go to Florida or someplace, but I know this town and I know who the creeps are. Besides...
...iron rods and wooden clubs with nails protruding, began advancing on the bridge. As Jaime Tadeo, a leftist peasant leader, shouted, "Charge Malacanang! Break down the barricades!" and his followers returned a chant of "Revolution! Revolution!," the protesters closed with the security forces. At first the policemen held their ground, but as the crowd pushed forward amid a hail of stones, the police lines began wavering. Frantic police officers shouted, "You can't go through." Tadeo, struggling in the front lines, yelled back, "We're going to Malacanang, and you can't stop...
...Aquino, the incident triggered the worst crisis her eleven-month-old government has faced since a military coup attempt last November that fizzled before it got off the ground. Two hours after the marines opened fire at the bridge, word reached Malacanang of a further setback: talks had broken off between the government and the National Democratic Front, the political wing of the Communist New People's Army (N.P.A.) in the effort to end the Philippines' 18-year-old insurgency. Leftists as well as rightists quickly seized on the setbacks to launch attacks on the President...