Word: netted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shots that made their way through a porous Harvard defense, but soon relinquished the lead. After Marty Cain flattened an unidentified Brown attackman, Kilkowski scooped up the loose ball, ran the length of the field, and bounced the ball into the right-hand corner of the net...
...works for the violin, piano and orchestra, including a propagandistic Longing for Home that became the signature tune for the regular Red broadcasts beamed at Taiwan. He was at peace with the Red regime until last June, when he and some 500 other cultural leaders were caught in the net of "thought reform," as part of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Chinese army officers forced Ma and his colleagues to clean toilets and break stones in the morning, study the thoughts of Mao Tse-tung and write "confessions" till late at night-an exercise that lasted 50 days. Allowed...
...four generations Germany's acrobatic Flying Wallendas have been performing their spine-tingling act on the high wire, always without a net. Since the Wallenda family settled in the U.S. in the 1920s, four members have toppled to death, and a fifth was permanently paralyzed in a fall. Now Steve Wallenda, 17, the youngest male of the proud family, who could have revitalized the troupe, has called it quits -for a high flying career with the U.S. paratroops. "I just like heights-on our first jump we will be jumping from 1,200 ft.," said Steve. "The highest...
Alfgrim grows up regarding Bjorn and his wife as his grandparents. It is a lively existence-going out at dawn with Bjorn to net lumpfish, playing in the nearby churchyard, lending a hand and his voice at funerals and, above all, skirmishing with such terrifying girls as Blaer, the choirmaster's daughter, and little Miss Gudmunsen, with her red gloves and fiery temper. When at last he is ready to cross the sea to the university in Denmark, his shawled "grandmother" says: "If you should meet a poor old woman like me anywhere in the world, give...
Despite a third-quarter scramble, in which sales outran . purchases by $260 million, the funds sided with the bulls, ending the year as net buyers of more than $1 billion in stock. And even though slumping prices trimmed the total value of their holdings by $2.3 billion to $31.2 billion over the year, the open-end funds came through 1966 far better than the market as a whole. The value of all U.S. stocks plunged by 13% to $587.4 billion. But the funds' portfolios dipped only 7%, which left them in fine shape to lead the bargain-hunting charge...