Word: heaviest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four days, the heaviest blizzard to hit the High Sierra in 30 years deposited 12 ft. of snow. Near Lake Tahoe, vacationers and mountain residents were stranded when major highways were closed, many blocked by snow slides. Several homes had been crushed by sliding snow masses; one California highway patrolman was buried briefly in his squad car near Truckee, Calif. Throughout the surrounding mountains, avalanche patrols used explosives and 75-mm howitzers to blast away dangerous snow formations, trying to keep pace with the blizzard and avert a catastrophe...
After a year's absence. Eddie Farreil returns to Cambridge to anchor at first base Potentially the team's heaviest hitter. Farrell played for Orange Coast Community College in California last season, hitting in the high 360s in one of the nation's tougher circuits Newcomer Elliott Rivera will fill in any where in the infield, as well as contend for a spot in the outfield...
...army. Although the guerrillas are receiving equipment from outside sources, their success does not depend upon the quality of the rifles they carry. Indeed, journalists who have made numerous and often unscheduled visits to rebel units find that the most common armament is still a weathered carbine, and the heaviest a .50-cal. machine...
America's oldest city is the site of one of its strangest attractions, a garish attempt to capitalize on the successful cartoon series and paperback books by the same name. Thing is, it works. There is something awe-inspiring about seeing the heaviest living man sitting outside on a chair the size of a Mazda. How about a wax representation of a man with three eyes? Don't knock it til you've seen it, or the shrunken heads, either. While you're in the area, check out Fort Castillo a quizzical structure with eight-foot thick walls made...
...brokerage firms, asserts bluntly: "The consensus that has the economy up in midyear and up in 1983 is wrong." Many investors appear to share his apprehension. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 17 points last week to 807, its lowest close in 22 months, on some of the heaviest trading in the history of the New York Stock Exchange. And the Business Roundtable, a group composed of chief executives of some 200 of the biggest U.S. corporations, predicted that an upturn would not begin until the fourth quarter...