Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began to wonder why anyone expected the Harvard defense to stop the mighty Penn ground attack on its astroturf field, where it had been undefeated in seven previous encounters...
That's exactly what she did, catching Jennings midway up the side of the gorge and burning past her as they approached the finishing stretch. Sullivan also made up ground, but Jennings managed to hold her off to preserve second, seven full seconds behind Newnham's course record...
...group of prostitutes. One of the prostitutes called out something like "Hey, baby!" Newton jumped out of the car, Orloff says, and began arguing with one of them, Kathleen Smith, 17. The others ran. When they heard a shot fired, they turned back and saw Smith lying on the ground, shot in the head. The girl lingered in a coma for 96 days before she died...
...until we have finally gotten rid of this snake from our house." Thousands of cheering Tanzanians gathered in Dar es Salaam to urge on Nyerere's army, which commandeered buses, Land Rovers and trucks to drive to the front, 850 miles away. But Nyerere reportedly was compelled to ground his air force after Tanzanian soldiers shot down five of their own MiG fighters, mistaking them for Ugandan jets...
...World War II fighter training base at Zephyrhills, Fla., came alive last week with a roar of airplane engines and a rainbow of shimmering parachutes. Some 600 sky divers convened on the field for eight days of serious contests in the air and not-so-serious games on the ground. Among the jumpers was TIME Correspondent Don Sider, who sent this report...