Word: packed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eligibility problems" moved Buckley from heir apparant to just one of the pack. Restic's longstanding, if unstated, preference for playing seniors works in Buckley's favor-if that's enough to get him the job is hard it tell...
...achieve postwar reconciliation at home and win aid and confidence abroad. In a blistering parliamentary attack on Walls, Minister of Information Nathan Shamuyarira declared that the government "will not be held ransom by racial misfits" and invited "all those Europeans [whites] who do not accept the new order to pack their bags." Citing a story about the alleged coup plan in the London Daily Express, Shamuyarira said that the government was considering "legal or administrative action" against Walls. Added Mugabe, on his way to New York City: "One thing is quite clear-we are not going to have disloyal characters...
Bradley arrived as early as 3 p.m. in the CBS "ready room" to have his face made up. His special equipment: a battery pack around the waist, a headset and a pair of steel-toed combat boots. "After being stepped on once too often during the Republican Convention, I decided I'd wear these to this one." Every day he had several story ideas ready before the live broadcast began. Once one of them was aired he would begin improvising. "Everything," he said, "is happening right now." He added with a grin: "If there's no drama...
Last week a team of doctors and scientists at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore and Johns Hopkins University announced the successful use in patients of a space-age machine that may eventually avert many such deaths. Their device: a mini-defibrillator, only about as big as a cigarette pack, that can be implanted in the patient's body, where it continually monitors the heart and, if attacks occur, automatically orders up charges of electricity to jolt the heart back into a normal rhythm...
...challenge their flagship. The most elegant Alphonse and Gaston routine took place on the final backstretch when Ethiopian Mohammad Kedir, then second behind Kaarlo Maaninka of Finland, swerved to the outside so that the Shifter could rocket through for his second gold. Poor Kedir got tangled up with the pack, lost a shoe and finished dead last...