Word: line
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will rob the loading area of space. Owen promises to look into it, knowing full well that he is not gaining much ground with the men, most of whom normally vote Conservative. Still, he professes confidence. "As the campaign goes on," he insists, "more people will distrust the Tory line. We are closing...
...Wembley Stadium shooting Yesterday's Hero, the story of a veteran British footballer fighting age and alcohol. In the female lead, she is a hip rock singer. The role is certainly more fulfilling than her only previous feature film credit, a wandering blond in American Graffiti whose one line was a wan "I love...
...rural water pumps, VHF telecommunications relay towers, automatic weather stations and even an Air Force radar station. In addition, Kansas oil wells use solar electricity to inhibit the rusting of metal; a remote Arizona Indian reservation gets its power from cells, and even the Saudi Arabian government plans to line its Jidda-Riyadh highway with 400 solar-powered emergency call boxes...
...Depression normalcy. News, most of it threatening, came thicker and faster: the cold war, Mao's revolution in China, the Alger Hiss case, Korea. At their 1952 conventions, the first to be covered by TV, both parties were forced to consider potential nominees who had challenged the old-line bosses by going over their heads and reaching the public through the channels of journalism. The Democrats stopped Estes Kefauver, but the G.O.P. accepted Dwight Eisenhower. In the end, it mattered less to the delegates that Ike was only a nominal Republican than that he was a genuine war hero with...
...didn't work out that way. Instead, the Terriers capitalized on a quicker start and a weak middle 500 by the Crimson oarswomen, cruising across the end line in 5:27.7 and leaving open water in front of the Crimson, who finished in a time...