Word: hops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...financing a separatist guerilla movement there. American Oil Company has just opened a field south of Luanda with cooperation from Shell. On the rooftop patio of a downtown Luanda hotel, I met an American tractor demonstrator and salesman from the Ford Motor Company whose job was to town-hop in the interior and set up Ford's market. He was very proud of Luanda's Ford dealership, Robert Hudson Ford, and their $20 million parts warehouse. His impression of the countryside was that "parts of it are very scenic, but most only reminds you that there are tons of bauxite...
With one out in that disastrous eighth, Shane St. Clair reached first on a scratch single that trickled past third baseman Fran Cronin. Ken Zend then drilled Holt's third pitch over the left field fence on one hop for a ground rule double, St. Clair going to third on the play...
...about 60 seconds back in 1947. After that, the giant Spruce Goose flying boat, designed by Industrialist Howard Hughes, never again took to the air. The eight-engine wooden plane, built by the Hughes Tool Co. and a Government defense agency, was obsolescent even before its one brief hop. Last week the General Services Administration announced that the bird, which has been stored in Long Beach, Calif., will be carved up and its pieces displayed at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and other institutions...
...What else is new?" Embree flopped his way to yet another cage record as he went over the bar with a leap of 7 ft. 1/4 in. And triple jumper Ahmed Kayali scored the only other first for Harvard in the field, hop, skip and jumping 46 ft, to victory...
...above my head flickered, and dimmed to about half. This was his signal in start the show. A cheap alarm clock was quickly adjusted and wound to keep taos off the length of the performance, and actress Lina Harvey dashed on some eyeliner. Jack Blessing mumbled about needing to hop to the John and everyone spread "Syntax" and kisses around for good luck. In a few seconds they all darted off onto the stage to begin the show's familiar opening number: a series of hilarious pantomines of various ballgames to illustrate to the spectator that "each proposition is your...