Word: replaying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grim replay of that incident, nine young Moluccans hijacked a Utrecht-Groningen express train near De Punt on May 23, while five others seized the primary school at Bovensmilde, where there were 105 children and five teachers. There was no doubt that the Moluccans intended to terrify the country. The children were forced to the windows to chant to the waiting troops and parents, "Van Agt, we want to live!" On several occasions hostages were displayed outside the train with ropes around their necks. But after an influenza-type epidemic broke out at the school, the terrorists freed...
Will governments fall? Can the Commies beat the Capitalists? Will the U.S. sweep the Nobel prizes two years in a row? Tune in ABC for the Super Bowl of news and instant replay on the Coup-of-the-Week...
...lacrosse faithfuls who converged on the University of Virginia's Scott Stadium for the title duel were looking forward to a delicious replay of the nail-biting squeaker the two squads staged during the regular season, a game the Big Red won with a second-half rally...
Kissinger, said Nixon, disparaged then Secretary of State William Rogers as a "leaker," and soon outmaneuvered the Secretary and took control of foreign policy. In Nixon's view, Kissinger found John Connally a "potential rival" for power in the Administration. To avoid a replay of the Rogers-Kissinger feud, Nixon dropped Connally as his choice to succeed Rogers as Secretary of State and gave Kissinger the job instead...
Neither adjective can be applied to Roone Pinckney Arledge. Born 45 years ago in Forest Hills, N.Y., he graduated from Columbia, worked briefly at NBC and was hired as a sports producer by ABC in 1960. Since then he has brought such innovations as instant replay, hand-held and isolated cameras, directional and remote microphones. He is responsible for the successful Wide World of Sports and for Howard Cosell, a little-known New York attorney when Arledge hired him in 1965. In the first quarter of this year, Arledge's programming gave ABC the seven top-rated week...