Word: high
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however, the high-scoring winger tends to downplay her field hockey talents. She denies having any finesse, and complains that her stickwork is below...
Somerville is a "highly ethnic community of mostly blue collar workers in which neighborhoods are very important," Stephen Mackey says. Only a small percentage of the city's high school graduating class goes on to college, he adds...
...last." Body-conscious Californians have yet to be seduced by the latest fashion invasion. Explains one 40-year-old sylph: "I worked really hard to stay looking good, and I'm not going to cover it up with baggies." The jeans have been well received among Chicago high schoolers, but older customers still seem to be too timid to go public with the new look...
...grasp -that is, to picture the quantity. Yet obviously a great effort is required even to cope with what is symbolized by a billion. The proof lies in those familiar tormented illustrations that writers cook up in the hope of suggesting the amount of a billion: the 125-mile-high stack of dollar bills that would add up to about a billion, the airplane propeller turning around the clock at 2,400 r.p.m. that would fall short of spinning a billion times in a year, the fact that a billion minutes ago (A.D. 77) the Christian era had scarcely...
...blows from Princeton players. Johnson took a knee to the mouth which pushed back one tooth and cut a gash on the inside of her lip that required seven stitches. Minutes later, a Princton defensman caught St. Louis' leg when both brought their knees up to meet a waist-high bouncer, forcing the Crimson star to the sidelines with a bruised knee. Both players are expected to play on Tuesday against Massachusetts...