Word: midways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Renaissance Midway. With Omni's 470-room hotel, a skating rink, six movie theaters, two office buildings, worthy restaurants and elegant stores, all adjoining a sports coliseum and a convention center-Kroffts' World will go far toward revitalizing a once decrepit section Atlantans remember as Railroad Gulch. One million visitors are expected its first year...
...just as important was the improvement of the returning players. Billy Tennis spent his first season and a half at Harvard as a rather inoffenisve midfielder. Midway through last season, however, he was moved to attack and responded with eight goals against BC in his first start. He ended 1975 with 35 points...
...comfortable with technology. For someone who mastered with infectious enthusiasm retro rockets and fuel tanks, and could wax positively ecstatic over a million pounds of thrust, he cannot rewind his tape recorder. The mighty fall hard: midway through our interview, which Cronkite said he was taping "for my memoirs," the tape...
...President Richard Nixon felt beleaguered by the Democrats, the kids on campus who were raising hell over his invasion of Cambodia, and by Washington bureaucrats, many of them still Kennedy-era holdovers who leaked presidential secrets to Nixon's "enemies" in the press. It was back then, midway through his first term, according to Pulitzer-prize winning Journalist J. Anthony Lukas, that Nixon set out to totally demolish his various tormentors. The result was the pageant of buggings, break-ins, dirty tricks and dirty money that led to Watergate and has now preoccupied the U.S. public for so long...
...state senate in my district. Opposing William Brotherton, incumbent and senate president, was Marvin Horan. Marvin Horan is a truck driver-turned-preacher at the First Independent Calvary Baptist Chruch of Witcher's Creek, West Virginia. He is presently appealing his three-year sentence for blowing up Midway Elementary School during the textbook issue. I just didn't want to look at the big pink road map after that...