Word: raring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rare Pigskin...
Emphasizing the urgency of the situation, President Carter brought both sides to the White House last week and pressed for a quick settlement-a rare and potentially risky presidential intervention. At week's end, bargaining talks were jolted by union rejection of the owners' proffered terms, and Labor Secretary Ray Marshall disclosed that a government takeover of the mines was among the worst-case scenarios being studied by the Administration. Meanwhile, Governors from the twelve Eastern-Central states most deeply hurt by the walkout arrived in Washington to coordinate their plans with the President and his energy advisers...
Dundee soon discovered just how good his young charge was. The strident gym voice softens, as if remembering something rare and lovely: "Oh, yes, I knew I had a winner. Of all the fighters I've ever known, only he could make the heavy bag sing when he hit it. I used to hear him make it snap like a snare drum every time I came up the stairs...
Thousands of other Ticos, as Costa Ricans call themselves, danced joyously in the streets. It was not Carnival, however, but a bash celebrating another honest election in a part of the world where political honesty and elections are all too rare...
...everything we had to in order to win, but little else," she said, proving once again that Harvard is that rare school where winning isn't everything...