Word: line
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conference table was cordial, even inviting some light bantering. Gromyko jokingly asked his counterpart: "Do you have your chief of staff with you?" The Russian was referring to Vance's wife Grace. The Secretary of State replied, smiling: "I have my chief of staff. She keeps me in line...
Manufacturers are fine-tuning prices to help meet the federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (or CAFE) standard of 19 m.p.g. for each company's entire line of cars in model year '79. The trick is to sell enough of the mini and subcompact models, averaging 28 to 30 m.p.g., to offset the heavier cars that get only 11 or 12 m.p.g...
...when he hears that the U.S. is surrounded by problems, Lyet likes to recall the old line about what French generals say when informed that their armies are surrounded: "Wonderful! This means we can attack in any direction...
...appeared before the game that coach Billy Cleary had finally made the changes necessary to tighten his defense and inspire the offense. Cleary moved captain John Cochrane back to defense, John Dunderdale from defense to left wing, and reshuffled all his lines. And, with George and Jack Hughes back in the line-up, how much worse could it be than the discouraging 5-3 loss at Northeastern Thursday night...
Harvard's final score came with 15 seconds left in the game when Paul Yeomelakis broke up the Huskies' last onslaught, took the puck at the red line, and fired it into the untended goal...