Word: length
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What brothers me is that on two occasions I went to great length in explaining to your reporters why I want to abolish the Council. What surprises me is why my position was so blatantly misrepresented. I reject the possibility that it was an oversight. rather, I believe, it was a direct and intentional omission of a contrary view. As hard as it may be to believe, there are students in this bastion of liberalism who still value principles such as individual rights and free enterprise. As such a person. I am not asking you to embrace my convictions...
Cornell's big chance came last in the second quarter, which runner back Harmon galloped nearly halt the length of the carpet until tackled from behind by John Dailey at the Crimson 30 from there Cornell drove to the nine before its drive collapsed. First, after a time out, Maguire took too long calling his signals. Then at the 14 the whole offensive line moved before the snap--an illegal procedure. Then Maguire went for paydirt--and tired straight into Dailey's arms at the three-yard line...
...audience finished their creme de cocoa in Florentine baskets, Ford criticized the length of the presidential primary season, which he said numbed the populace. Carter bemoaned the "hodgepodge of registration laws" which he said were "so confusing even to a college student, but particularly to an uneducated Black or Hispanic person [that] it is almost impossible to figure out how, in a convenient way, to become registered...
...Vietnamese made their furtive way, intent on celebrating only death. After the merrymakers had retired and the last firecrackers had sputtered out, they struck with a fierceness and bloody destructiveness that Viet Nam has not seen even in three decades of nearly continuous warfare. Up and down the narrow length of South Viet Nam, more than 36,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers joined in a widespread, general offensive against airfields and military bases, government buildings, population centers and just plain civilians...
First it was by one length, then five, then ten. Coming into the stretch, Jockey Ron Turcotte did not bother to go to the whip as Secretariat poured it on. When he crossed the finish line, he had won by an incredible 31 lengths, the largest winning margin in the history of the Belmont...