Word: meters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TIME WAS when the peaceful atom was hot news--the weeklies all ran cover stories on the magical power source that would be too cheap to meter. And week after week in the 1950s, as the first plants were built and tested, there were diagrams and articles to teach an ignorant but machine-obsessed audience how protons and such could tumble around and produce enough current to run every Osterizer across America until all the world's avocados had been turned into guacamole thrice over, all the clothes washed and dried faster than they could be soiled, all the cheese...
Despite the threats, however, the Egyptian women were only loudly booed by the crowd after Graves and McCarthy won the 1000-meter pairs race against a 16- and a 17-year-old pair. As for the treatment of the two American women, Graves said that she and her partner were accepted warmly by the Egyptians...
...three-meter diving events, sophomore Adriana Holy dove what coach John Walker called "the best meet of her life." Scoring mostly sevens and eights on her dives, Holy could do no wrong as she ran away with the honors in both of the diving contests...
...NOTEBOOK: Junior diver Pam Stone, usually Harvard's striking force in the one-meter contest, hit her hand on the board in the one-meter contest, but continued to compete between ice pack baths... Zimic and co-captain Katie Kelley each recorded lifetime bests during the meet--Kelley going 2:30. 92 in the 200-yd. backstroke, and Zimic recording a 54.8 in the 100-yd. free...
...divers performed with their usual dependable excellence, as sophomore Adriana Holy copped second in the one-meter and third in the three-meter, and junior Pam Stone won the three-meter and finished close behind Holy in the one-meter...