Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meet some educational standard, enriching him as well. It was a square deal. "I've had a great career at Georgetown," he said. "I've learned a great deal." Fetching his award in the postgame commencement, Ewing poked a No. 1 finger at the roof, but in the next instant he seemed to lead the clapping for Villanova, especially for Ed Pinckney...
...identified with their roles: Robert McNamara was the whiz-kid president of Ford Motor Co. beforehand and head of the World Bank afterward, but he is still remembered as the Secretary of Defense who calibrated America's growing involvement. Others were caught in the national spotlight for an awkward instant and have been trying to live it down ever since. Mary Ann Vecchio was a 14-year-old runaway from Florida captured by a photographer as she knelt in anguish over a dead student on the Kent State campus in 1970. For years her wanderings and missteps made news...
...Cantabs, now 5-1, could only manage to punch out four hits against B.C. hurler Leslie Lane-two in the pseudo instant replay seventh...
...diffidence at the time. He was then groping his way toward an understanding of how to nurture infants and small children. But he re-searched so shrewdly, foraging among psychoanalytic concepts and heeding the advice of embattled mothers, that Baby and Child Care turned out to be an instant hit and an enduring classic...
...Hawaiian Eye). ABC was also a pioneer in the made-for-TV movie format. Perhaps its most striking achievements came in sports programming. Under the leadership of Producer Roone Arledge, ABC increased the scope of athletics coverage with its weekly Wide World of Sports; introduced technical innovations like the instant replay; brought pro football into prime time with Monday Night Football; and substantially raised the standards of network sports reporting...