Word: net
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been promised F-104 fighter-bombers for its air force, plans to zip it up even further, with 70 new F-5 supersonic bombers-to be built in Spain under license from Northrop. Spain still stands in the Common Market waiting room, but it is busily spreading a net of trade agreements all over the world. Commerce Minister Alberto Ullastres picked up a fistful of orders by stumping Africa last month, while two of his fellow cabinet members were ringing doorbells in Japan, the Philippines, Cambodia and Formosa...
...hatters have added some crucial undercover work. To give the scarf a lift and banish the babushka look, milliners have concocted a hatlike frame of stiff net. Over the frame goes a kerchief, with the ends either knotted at the nape of the neck or softly folded in front. The result: the scarf hat, a runaway bestseller that can safely be placed on freshly set hair and is often well worth wearing for its own stylish sake...
...like a shroud, Guard Sam Jones poured in 18 points in the first quarter, and the Celtics leaped into a 35-26 lead. Where was Wilt? All of a sudden, he was there and everywhere. He banked a hook shot high off the backboard, dropped a layup through the net. What's more, the rest of the 76'ers caught fire too; by half time they were ahead...
...left, evened the score at 7-7. Then, Crimson midfielder Denis Byrne got the ball after the face off, raced down the field with his stick in the air, and got off a hard shot from about fifteen feet out which landed in the right corner of the net. The winning goal came 30 seconds before the final...
...morning to fly to London, Nureyev was informed that he was to go instead to Moscow to dance in the Kremlin, and could rejoin the tour later. "Dance in the Kremlin indeed," scoffs Nureyev in retrospect. "I knew this was a crisis. I was like a bird inside a net. A bird must fly, see the neighbor's garden and what lies beyond." So he flew...