Word: ib
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said the women are "more coordinated than men. I worked for hours trying to teach a 6' 4", 200-Ib. fellow what any one of my girls learned in 15 minutes...
...money is good, better than they could make anywhere else with their meager education, and that the poverty they come from is even more oppressive. So they stay, breaking their backs for $2.50 an hour, dragging 300-lb. sections of pipe and stacking endless 100-Ib. sacks of chemical...
...began their 2½-day journey back to Houston. "We have had a terrific flight," said Apollo 14's skipper, Alan Shepard. He and his fellow travelers were in high spirits and apparently good health, and doctors later discovered that Shepard had actually gained weight (1 Ib.) during his 941,825-mile journey. Indeed, the astronauts' condition-and the fact that no alien organisms had been found on the Apollo 11 and 12 spacecraft-strongly suggested that the lunar travelers' 21-day quarantine is unnecessary; it probably will not be imposed on the next mission...
Sabu, the Tucson zoo's young, 4,500-Ib. bull elephant, staged a prison riot last August. He charged Zoo Foreman Carl Weese, cracking cartilage, gashing him in the arm with his tusks. Weese was saved by a co-worker who rushed into Sabu's pen and began pounding the elephant on the trunk, driving him back...
Richie Starr "won a closer than expected decision." according to Lee, defeating his 177 Ib. M.I.T. opponent, 5-3. In the 190 Ib. match. Dave Scanlon won a 4-0 decision and "turned in a good performance," said...