Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never done so with so little finesse. Granted, Dylan has a point to make, but never has he made it so painfully. We learn (1) "God doesn't make promises he don't keep," (2) "You've either got faith or unbelief and there ain't no neutral ground," and (3) "Jesus said be ready, for you know not the hour which I come." Dylan even stoops to a Barry Manilowesque "Babe, ask me how I feel and if my love is real" construction...
...Crimson then started to close out the contest as the running game accounted for good yardage and chewed up the clock. On the day, Harvard racked up 175 on the ground to 64 for Columbia...
...Pavarotti, reaching a top note brings on a mystical feeling such as a champion high-jumper might experience. "That second when you clear the bar in mid-air you lose consciousness," he says. "It is something physical, animal, beyond control. A moment later you are back on the ground and in full control." The haunting, universal fear that some day he will jump and miss?"that I shall open my mouth and no sound will come out" ?gives Pavarotti the whim-whams before every performance. In 1972 he made a transatlantic call to Beverly Sills about their upcoming appearance...
...said he had to refuel. At last, at around 7 p.m., we departed. But later, in midcourse, we veered left toward the Vineyard's neighboring island of Nantucket. Apparently our flight number was switched with that of the flight to Nantucket. So we landed there, stayed on the ground for a while, and then once again headed for the Vineyard. It was really wild...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Karolyn Rose, 37; from flamboyant Philadelphia Philly Pete Rose, 38, one of the highest-paid players in baseball; on the ground of "gross neglect of duty"; after 15 years of marriage, a daughter and a son; in Cincinnati...