Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HARVARD DEFENSE--Joe Restic must be thanking God each night for his defensive stalwarts. Columbia and UMass totaled just 143 yards on the ground in the first two weeks. The backfield has played well coming up to stop the run, though the secondary did show some strain against UMass' Mike McEvilly and Kevin O'Connor...
...Stanhouse, pitching with the bases loaded, forced Angel catcher Brian Downing to ground to third for the final...
...festival brings angry young orators who give speeches about human rights and democracy. Blank faces watch the troops and the speakers: the troops are soon eclipsed by the wonders of the city and the angry speeches no longer heard when someone spots a gold coin lying unclaimed on the ground. And though the ending hints at some stirrings of unrest among the families after one of their group has been evicted by the landowner, this in not a film about politics, oppression, human rights, class struggles, or mean landlords vs. good peasants...
...department will eat up more than $14 billion of federal funds--a large and misdirected sum for a goal as vague as increasing the "visibility" of educational issues. And as the floundering Department of Energy has shown, such agencies don't have much luck in getting off the ground...
...stream of newcomers moves constantly across the Common, spilling out of the Park Street station. They are greeted first by a battalion of souvenir hawkers peddling commemorative medals, half a dozen brands of Pope programs, (the best of which has a full page of the holy father kissing the ground in different locales), dumb bumper stickers (I saw the Pope in Mass"), and blasphemous tee-shirts ("Pope Adds Life...