Word: reset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That season Beckford reset her mile record at the Mason-Dixon Games at 4:45, crossed the tape only one-tenth of a second behind Jan Murdoch for a silver medal in the 800 at the Milrose Games in New York and took third place at Senior Nationals in the same event...
...equipment, tape recorders, television sets, electric wiring, lawn mowers and a snow blower. They sodded portions of his yard, installed artificial turf, planted shrubbery, built a deck in the rear of the house, a redwood fence, a flagstone court and sidewalks. They designed and constructed a power-operated window, reset clocks, polished metal, retouched wallpaper, provided firewood and rearranged furniture. "Employees were on call night and day for this work," notes the report; they "felt compelled to follow orders for fear of losing their jobs, or of arbitrary transfers or promotion delays...
James U. Rafferty, captain of the Cambridge fire department, reset the alarm and students were then allowed to reenter the building...
...power loss, lightning struck again. At 8:56 p.m. bolts knocked out two more upstate 345-kilovolt lines in Westchester that bring in power from upstate New York and New England. Three minutes later, lightning knocked out yet another line. Worse still, circuit breakers designed to reset automatically after the enormous voltage surge caused by a lightning bolt apparently failed to close. By now the utility had suffered a massive loss of some 2,000 megawatts-more than a third of its electrical load that night...
...speaking of Kubacki, the senior signal-caller, despite his slowdown during the last month, now needs but 128 yards to reset the oldest career record remaining in the Crimson books, the total offense mark...