Word: mccray
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wasn't there before the supernova. It's not a star. It's not a second supernova. I would quit astronomy and go live on a mountain as a hermit if two supernovas went off at the same time that close together." Cracked University of Colorado Astrophysicist Richard McCray: "Once again, nature has been more imaginative than the astronomers...
...multiple layers cool and become transparent, Supernova 1987A continues to tantalize scientists. What will be revealed? "Eventually," said Woosley, "we should see the monster that lives at the center." Predicted McCray: "The best is yet to come...
...Fitch used to like to call Bird "Kodak.") That little voice starts talking to him. He's in his backyard again. He's playing by himself." The image delighted Fitch, but only for a moment. "I don't know," he sighed, unable to blame Defender Rodney McCray for Bird's three-point plays inside and out. "What can anyone do with Larry?" What would Havlicek do? John Hondo answered confidently, "Let him get 50 points and make the other guys get six or eight...
FOOTNOTE: *The other five: Indiana's Warren McCray (1923) and Ed Jackson (1927); North Dakota's William Langer (1934); Maryland's Marvin Mandel (1975); West Virginia's Arch Moore...
...Delfonic McCray, 13, was big for his age, 6 ft. tall. He liked basketball and girls, and kept love letters carefully folded in his Michael Jackson wallet. He and a friend were on their way to a Chicago Bulls basketball game and stopped at a housing project on the west side of Chicago to see a girlfriend. As they approached the back entrance of a graffiti-scarred tenement, a group of youths taunted them. Delfonic approached tentatively, then turned and ran. One of the youths casually drew a .22-cal. handgun and shot him. "We had a good kid coming...