Word: highlight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second day of fishing found the Crimson's 25-ft. dory pitching on tempestuous seas and most of the team members leaning over the rails. Purdy queasily recalls, "I spit my tooth out, that was how sick I got. It was the highlight of the tournament...
Nearly all early TIME covers featured a single human subject, but in recent years the magazine's editors, feeling a growing need to highlight issues as well, have picked more "topic" covers. Editorial perceptions of the importance of the presidency have also changed. Herbert Hoover rated only four TIME covers, none of them during his one term as President. But in a 2½-year term, Gerald Ford appeared 19 times. The unchallenged winner of the cover sweepstakes: Richard Nixon, who appeared 53 times in a 23-year-span...
...income in the past three years (because of the fall of the dollar), though only 3%, found Iran financially overextended. As a result, many development projects simply came to a halt. Inflation leaped to 50% a year, profiteering became widespread, and the confluence of troubles served to highlight some of the faults that have long characterized the Shah's modernization program...
...Though the team didn't have a winning year, this had to be the highlight of the season. For me it was the culmination of all that I had learned during my football career here, especially in the way I was able to read defenses. Coach Restic had a great game plan that day, and that didn't hurt either...
...ignorance is debilitating neither professionally nor personally." However Bernard Bailyn, Winthrop Professor of History and another Core architect, who apparently does not care for Bossert's sense of humor, replied simply that the Core is not an attempt to survey all the major areas of knowledge," but instead a highlight of the most essential, "core" areas...