Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Years of Animation--"Warner Brothers Cartoons," Thursday, Friday, Monday-Wednesday at 6, 8 and 10 p.m., Saturday and Sunday at 4, 6, 8 and 10 p.m.; Off the Wall Cinema, 15 Pearl...
...first ship was built by European settlers in the New World, the Iron Works constructed steamers, tugs, trawlers, J.P. Morgan's famous yacht (the one no one could afford if he had to ask how much it cost) and destroyers for the Navy in both world wars. From Pearl Harbor to V-J day, BIW turned out 82 destroyers, vs. 63 for Japan's entire shipbuilding industry. Only eight vessels were lost in combat, and among Navy men "Bath-built" came to mean lucky as well as seaworthy...
...head up as a target for withering combinations. Chased to the ropes, Hearns finally went down and out onto the apron of the ring, climbing back in to stand for the next assault. Once more-he was knocked into the ropes, but the round ended as Referee Davey Pearl reached the eight count...
...bell rang for the 14th round, Leonard came out of his corner like a shot, racing over to tag Hearns with a huge left hook before the Hit Man could step out of his path. After 1 min. 45 sec. of blows that Hearns was powerless to return, Referee Pearl stopped the fight. Hearns, who had been ahead on points with all three judges at that moment, looked on incredulously. "I thought I was in pretty much control," he protested later. Said Angelo Dundee, Leonard's manager: "Tommy Hearns was out of it. He didn't know where...
DIED. Dusko Popov, 69, who as a double agent for British intelligence during World War II warned that the Japanese were planning to attack the United States at Pearl Harbor and helped divert Nazi troops from the site of the Allied invasion at Normandy; after a long illness; in Opio, France. The Yugoslav-born Popov passed false information to the Nazis under the code name Tricycle, and was said to be a model for Ian Fleming's fictional spy hero James Bond...