Word: latelys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crowd at Darlington numbered some 22,000; this year nearly 68,000 (up 33% from 1978) paid between $10 and $30 a ticket to watch the jousting. Although the sport was born in the South and is still centered there, NASCAR's Grand National circuit, which uses only late-model sedans, visits Brooklyn, Mich., Dover, Del., and Ontario, Calif. Last year more than 1.5 million fans watched the races, and purses rose to $4.8 million, a 50% increase in five years. This season the money will climb to over $5 million. And this year, for the first time, national...
...least, in Laos. "Our mission was much inflated," says Jack Maury. "Covert operations can support but not substitute for overt policies. You are not going to change the course of history by cloak and dagger." Ray Cline feels that the CIA is "better at subtle, indirect methods. It is late in the game when you have to shoot someone to get your way. The basic function of covert action is to tell people how to run a stable political system and how to deal with threats to that stability...
During the late sixties, he was as much amused by the "flower punks" of the Summer of Love as he was by the contagious mediocrity which brought plastic furniture to the suburbs. Never one to take the world seriously, Zappa has long since moved to Montana and become a dental floss tycoon...
...bats of both teams fell silent until late in the contest when Harvard managed the only tally of the first five innings as Bobby Kelley scored from second base after Mark Bingham's topper was mishandled by the first baseman in the third...
...Crimson laxwomen fell asleep during the opening minutes of Saturday's game at Princeton and woke up too late in the first half to stop the offensive momentum that carried the Tigers to a 10-6 victory in New Jersey...