Word: meters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drained the tank and shoveled out their stash, about 100 Ibs. of acorns, scores of angry birds began slamming against the windows. "The birds did not seem afraid of anything," said Donna. "I'd scare them away but it didn't work." Not long thereafter, a meter reader noticed that the living-room window was smashed and called the police. Guns drawn, officers entered the house with John and found not a burglar but a hawk with a 2-ft. wing span perched in the living room. John Pflueger theorized that the hawk had been going after...
...threatened an attack on the White House with radio-controlled model airplanes somehow designed to confuse Secret Service radio communications. Said a federal investigator: "You could tell it was written by someone whose thoughts were muddled." Like the original extortion note, the letter was stamped with a postage meter to which LeAnn Lewis had access...
...Plenty" in which weather would be atomically controlled, cars would travel for years on small pellets of uranium, and the moon would be only a short distance away via atomic powered vehicles. One of the chairmen of the Commission even forecast that electricity would probably be "too cheap to meter" The A.E.C. has spent the last three decades trying to fulfill these high hopes, but, as Ford shows, the intentions have gone dangerously astray...
...transition from cross-country to indoor track obviously has not fazed sophomores Jenny Sticker and Kate Wiley, who were both named to the All-American cross-country squad earlier this year. They finished one-two in the 1500-meter race and Stickler's 4.20.9 set a new facility record. They later went on to give the two-mile relay team an easy victory...
...record). 2(Wiley (H) 4:21.8,3) Fallon (BC) 4:47.9,4) Willis (BC) 4:48.3, 55m Hurdie--Patterson (H) 8.7.2) Paul (BC) 8.7,3) Perron (M(8.9,4) Goode (BC) 8.9; 400m--1) Busby (H) 60.0,2) Gabler (H) 60.0,3) Bird (M) 60.1, Lucey (BC) 60.5,55 Meter Dash--1) Freeman (BC) 7.4,2) Rice (BC) 7.4,3) Scharoun (H) 7.6,4) Small (M) 7.8; 800m--1) DeFries (H)2:13.7,2) Barrett (H) 2:16.4,3) Connelly (BC) 2:18.04) Conigliar (BC) 2.22.9; 200m--1) Freeman (BC) 26.3,2) Scharoun (H) 26:6.3) BUSby (H) 26.9.4) Wilkens...