Word: raring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McDermott was a rare human being then and I took it for granted. His death was tragic, but his life an inspiration for those who have learned from the irony of tragedy...
...there can be no doubt that the star athlete can and does exist at Harvard. They've never manufactured jocks at Cambridge, and they're not about to start now. "Athletic scholarship" is not in the vocabulary, "first round draft pick" a rare species...
...latest chapter in the long and arduous relationship between Harvard's teaching hospitals and a local service employees union this past summer ended in a rare victory for the union...
Otherwise, the salvaging was going smoothly, 40 miles off the coast of Florida, until the state government ran up the Jolly Roger and demanded the loot. It seized $1.5 million worth of treasure, including a rare astrolabic instrument worth $500,000 and some 1,800 silver coins. In 1975, however, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Florida's territorial waters extended only three miles out to sea. Still, Florida sued to keep what it had taken...
...small, cluttered office at England's Cambridge University. At his side is a mechanical page turner that allows him to read without calling for assistance. Stephen Hawking has been confined to a wheelchair for eight years, the victim of a type of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a rare, wasting disease of the nervous system and muscles. He cannot raise his head without great effort. He speaks only in a slurred monotone comprehensible to just a few intimates. Yet, at age 36, in spite of his heart-rending handicaps, Hawking is widely regarded as one of the premier scientific theorists...