Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young corps of Crimson grapplers stood its ground against older and more experienced competition at this weekend's Coast Guard Tourney, held in New London, Conn., and nabbed 36 points for a respectable fifth-place finish in the team standings. Columbia, a traditional Eastern powerhouse, grabbed first with 83 1/2 points...
Campus Drinking As a college freshman, I found your article "Going Back to the Booze" [Nov.5] to be true. We too had a "flurry of pamphlets on how to fight alcohol abuse," but they fell to the ground, dropped by those who chose to remain uninformed...
...time the President strode across the White House lawn, head held defiantly high, the State Department had drafted a statement posing the military threat obliquely but unmistakably. Secretary Vance argued against issuing the statement immediately, on the ground that it might further inflame the mobs in Tehran. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and others insisted that the Iranians had to be warned of the dangerous consequences before they actually put any Americans on trial...
...more people came up from the vault, we gathered in knots for the move across the roof to a second ladder that went to the ground. The Marines led us over the side. "I'm sorry we have to take you through a little smoke here," one of them said to me. This part of the building was blazing from both sides, and smoke hung over everything. I kept thinking that the roof had to collapse soon-any minute...
When we came down the last ladder, we looked across to the embassy gates. The Pakistani army that had been coming to our rescue since the assault began at 1 p.m. finally opened the gates and some soldiers ceremoniously marched over to the ladder and welcomed us to the ground...