Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kids were celebrating the first day of school almost two months after the last of the nation's other classrooms had hummed back to life. Vacation had blended into fall and Indian summer while the students waited for school to start. Leaves turned brown and fell to the ground. For 34 school days, nearly all Levittown's teachers had been on strike over wages, job security, fringe benefits, and their desire to retain special programs in the curriculum. Only that morning they had agreed to end the longest teacher strike...
...caked beards. They needed help badly and I knew I wasn't strong enough to do what was necessary alone, which scared me. No longer thinking about myself, I tried to follow Adrian's footsteps at a run but kept losing them since the switchbacks had stopped as the ground leveled off for a while. Because the cairns meant to mark the trail were snow-covered, and indistinguishable from countless other rockpiles, it could go anywhere. I started to panic, tearlessly, soundlessly, then started to yell for Adrain. No answer. Nor was there any sign of Johnnie and the others...
...distinguished doctor who acts as team physician to the Bears because his son once Clayed football with them. Dr. Verbruggen sees the game of football from a slightly different perspective. "It rained a few days ago," he remarks. "The field has dried out enough for good footing, but the ground is still nice and soft. You don't get as many injuries in these conditions...
...line for a touchdown. Last week it became evident that the quick score only got the Carter Comets back into a game that had been turning into a rout. To win, Carter must now call signals effectively for a long, grind-it-out-on-the-ground drive against the awesome defense of the Inflation Bears...
...which it suspended in the early '40s. For the past year, the airline has been running a heavily booked six-day China tour (total cost: about $1,145 double occupancy), but it has had to fly its customers to Tokyo or Hong Kong for transfer to Chinese planes or ground transportation. That may not always be necessary. Earlier this year, Pan Am gave up its routes to both Moscow and Taiwan. Though the company denies it, those moves look as if they might have been aimed at helping Pan Am fly directly to some of the mainland cities that...