Word: palming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classic mixture of talent and inexperience, the Harvard men's volleyball team in its first year as a varsity sport has the potential to succeed where last year's squad fell just short--in winning the Ivy League championship, according to coach Mike Palm...
...Harvard's top six players are freshmen, and two others are sophomores. The small amount of experience on the team is placed optimally; Palm has three experienced setters in co-captains Tom Houliban and Brad Martin and back-up Kyle Konishi. Like a basketball point guard and a football quarterback, the setter acts as a floor leader and controls the ball...
Clark began taking hold while the Reagan entourage spent the New Year's holiday in Palm Springs, Calif. As the President made his final decision to replace Allen and upgrade the job. Clark immediately started a series of conversations with Haig and Weinberger. The new arrangement could only work, he told them, if they put aside thier contentious ways...
...room house and $600,000 to furnishings. Few of the nearly 6,000 items of F.D.R. memorabilia were beyond repair. Custodians of the mansion raced in to retrieve items ranging from a Gilbert Stuart portrait of a Roosevelt forebear to F.D.R.'s mother's 3-ft. potted palm...
Ronald Reagan still reads the comic strips and he still eats jelly beans, scooping a dozen into the palm of his left hand, popping them one by one into his mouth with his right hand. Most decisions during his first twelve months involved one-scoop problems. Ready or not, 1982 may be a two-scoop year...