Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elected to the House were Democrats Les Aspin of Wisconsin, Ronald Dellums of California, Elizabeth Holtzman and Charles Rangel of New York and Patricia Schroeder of Colorado, along with Republicans Jack Kemp of New York, Tom Railsback of Illinois and William Steiger of Wisconsin. Minnesota Democrat Martin Sabo was elected to the House...
...macabre, there's no place like home. Take the London house furnished by British Author Ian McEwan, 29, in this tight, unsettling first novel. The place stands almost deserted amid urban rubble, one of the few survivors of a highway plan that went nowhere. In it live Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom, a reasonably normal array of siblings ranging in age from 17 to six, and their mother, who is dying. The earlier death of the father and the mother's terminal illness have produced an upsurge in slovenliness and disorder among the children. What happens when...
Somehow the tragic circumstances surrounding his death and the flood of sympathy which that released came to obscure what had actually happened. Achievements emasculated blunders. Washington became Camelot. Myth replaced reality. The nation craved a hero and Kennedy fit the bill. When Dave Powers said that "Being with Jack Kennedy in the White House was like dying and going to heaven," he captured the mood of the country at that time. It had all seemed so exciting, so different from the seamier Johnson and Nixon years. Kennedy had indeed been the best and the brightest...
Things cooled off for a while, until Dartmouth parlayed a holding penalty on Jack Hughes into the 3-0 margin. With 25 seconds to go in the man-up situation, Dartmouth mounted one last attack. Lau stopped Dennis Murphy's attempt from the left face-off circle, but center Mark Bedard was there to nail home the rebound...
Eight seconds after Dartmouth had killed off its only penalty of the frame, freshman Scott Powers cranked a blazer from the left point. Rick Benson and Jack Hughes took swipes at the rebound before freshman David Burke got control at the right post and rammed it in for Harvard's first goal of the night, and the season...