Word: rest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest of the independents, it was a disastrous outing. Incumbent Lawrence A. Frisoli lost badly, finishing 13th in the original count. Frisoli tried to build an electoral base on non-existent soil--disenchanted condo owners. They either don't exist or didn't turn out to vote. Leaders of the Concerned Cambridge Citizens (CCC), a group that published no stands on issues but whose candidates were mostly opposed to rent control, found the same hard fact--the traditional city voting blocs, be they liberal or ethnic, are very hard to penetrate. The only candidates useful as barometers...
...came St. John, Horner, and the rest of the front line for an encore the took just two minutes to complete. On third and nine front the Penn 12, St. John worked the shotgun and threw one more strike to the ever-elusive Horner, who was alone at the goal line. The Dave Cody kick broke open the game, giving the Crimson a 41-20 advantage...
...split at the mile in 4:21, 35 yards ahead of Harvard's Murphy. The leaders slowed down considerably in the next mile, as Treacy moved up on Bick-ford: and the two ran together through the two-mile split at 9:03, about 75 yards ahead of the rest of the field...
...advantage enjoyed by the Khmer Rouge is their ability to make tactical retreats into Thailand, where they rest and regroup?much to the discomfiture of the neutral Thais. Some 30,000 Khmer Rouge and their supporters crossed into Thailand last month during a Vietnamese offensive, and reportedly have since returned to Cambodia, presumably having hidden their arms there. One obvious danger is that Hanoi might risk a direct attack into Thailand. Said a top Western diplomatic observer in Bangkok last week: "The war can easily spill over into Thailand. Hanoi wants very badly to get rid of the Khmer Rouge...
...nearly occluded by an outgrowth of bone. He could barely speak, was unable to smile, and his face, according to the attending doctor, looked like "a block of gnarled wood." The only way he could sleep was to rest his head on his knees. In 1890, longing to sleep "like other people," he lay down on his back, dislocated his neck and died of suffocation...