Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HANOVER, N.H.--With 12:41 left in Saturday's Harvard-Dartmouth soccer game. Big Green midfielder Brian Hitch-cock broke a 1-1 deadlock with his second goal of the afternoon...
...McCoy, Wis., scene of repeated fights and homosexual rapes among some of the toughest refugees from Cuba, 120 young men packed their meager possessions in plastic garbage bags, boarded Greyhound buses, and then sat for 4½ hours while repairs were made to their chartered Boeing 737-the only hitch in the evacuation of Fort McCoy. By week's end nearly all 3,000 refugees were gone. Meanwhile, at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation in Pennsylvania, about 2,500 Cubans were loading their belongings into cardboard cartons for a similar journey this week...
Healy said that even if the strike continued, supervisory personnel could keep the city's 350th anniversary celebration, scheduled for this weekend, "running without a hitch...
Langston, 34, came to the United States 15 years ago from Canada and joined the service. The only thing close to stage experience was a radio show he had while in the Navy, "Musical Murray's Murray-Go-Round of Music." After a four-year hitch in the Navy aboard an aircraft carrier that stayed in Europe, Langston moved to Los Angeles where he eventually landed a job as a computer operator. After four years of punching cards, he was ready to expand his horizons...
...plot has remained. Repairman Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) is struck, like Saul of Tarsus, with a vision of alien benignity; together with Jillian Guiler (Melinda Dillon), whose small son has run away from home to hitch a ride on a starship, Roy brazens his way into the first meeting of man and extraterrestrial. Both film versions pay heartfelt homage to the spirit of early Disney-not only in their use of the song When You Wish Upon a Star (from Pinocchio) but also in their insistence on a childlike belief in the magic of movies. The actors here...