Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world will look at California, which in turn will look as laid back as Edvard Munch's The Scream. Yet the place should survive. For the moment there is a mixture of frenzy, anticipation and smog. This Saturday the final torchbearer will be prepared to do the final leg, the name of the runner kept secret till the last minute by L.A.O.O.C. President Peter Ueberroth, who, after five years of haggling, deserves some...
...first leg of the massive effort to assess more than 360 undergraduate classes has reached its midpoint as the seven member CUE Guide staff puts the finishing touches on the Core Curriculum descriptions...
...meter dash in 10.06 with his familiar finishing crescendo, over Football Players Sam Graddy of Tennessee and Ron Brown, soon of the Los Angeles Rams. So the 4 X 100-meter relay team was set, too, in this likely order: Graddy leading off, Brown the second leg, Calvin Smith the third, Lewis the anchor...
Built in Spain in 1917 and refurbished in England 13 years ago, thew 117-ft. Marques had appeared in several movies and portrayed the Beagle in the television series The Voyage of Charles Darwin. It was one of 39 ships competing in , the 800-mile Bermuda-Nova Scotia leg of the biennial Cutty Sark tall ships race sponsored by the British and American Sail Training Associations. One requirement of the race is that half of each ship's crew must be between the ages of 16 and 25. Finlay, an American who operated a sailing school in Antigua...
...rescued sailors called the fatal force that capsized their ship "a rogue wind." "It meant to kill us," asserted John Ash, 24, of Newtown, Pa. "There was nothing we could do." The proud vessel brought to the bottom the silver cup it had captured by winning a previous leg of the tall ships race. But the Marques bequeathed a legacy to future seafarers: the race's organizers hope to raise $50,000 for a Marques Foundation that will train other young sailors to brave and conquer the realm that Lord Byron called "the image of Eternity...