Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Freshman Sheila Findley had a super meet as well, taking two events and finishing third in one other. Findley won the 100-yd. backstroke with a time of 1:00.20, swam the backstroke leg of Harvard's victorious 400 medley relay team, and took third in the 200-yd. backstroke...
Quinn also swam the butterfly leg in the 400 medley relay, joining forces with Findley, Costello and Suhs to snag the top position...
...Table, 1919, one sees his hand evoking the most difficult conjunctions of sight and imagination -- in the way the transparent Turkish blouse is rendered by a few luscious strokes of white over the flesh, for instance, or in the sliding knot of green and black shapes that defines the leg of the armchair. When Matisse saw the glitter of light on a band of water, he wanted to get it right, along with the curlicues of wrought iron between his eye and the Baie des Anges, and the peculiar Moorish dome of a pier pavilion, and the curl...
...life is Hanoi." That was no exaggeration: after a peripatetic life as a Navy pilot, McCain was shot down over Viet Nam in 1967 and spent the next 5 1/2 years in a prisoner- of-war camp. He came out with two broken arms and a broken leg; he still walks with a slight limp and cannot raise his right forearm above elbow level. His war-hero status helped elect him to two terms in the House and, last week, to Barry Goldwater's seat in the Senate. McCain, 50, easily defeated Democrat Richard Kimball...
Many investors are afraid to sell lest they miss out on the next leg of the bull market. Indeed, some Wall Street forecasters, encouraged by improving economic growth and a continuation of low interest rates, are predicting that the Dow Jones industrial average will pass the 2000 mark next year. For many shareholders, stocks remain the most attractive investments available, particularly since interest rates on bonds and bank accounts are relatively low at this time. Says James Campbell, an investor who heads a Manhattan photo-reproduction company: "Imagine I sold and took my profit and tax savings right now. What...