Word: robins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under the tournament rules, the first three players for each team play off against each other in a round-robin type competition. These bouts make up the first division. The fourth, fifth and sixth men for each team make up the second division and play off in a similar competition...
...have the services of a professional geologist on the moon. The Taurus-Littrow landing site contains what may be small, volcanically created cinder cones; they seem to be miniature versions of earthly features like Honolulu's Diamond Head. The cones may well be remnants of what NASA Geochemist Robin Brett calls "some of the last belches of lunar activity before the moon turned off." Finally, Apollo 17 planners have scheduled a program of experiments and observation far more sophisticated than any of the earlier scientific efforts on the moon...
...bread. It is an unlikely kind of football town. Who thinks of apple-cheeked American youth playing a fast game of touch on Jackie Gleason Drive or Arthur Godfrey Road? Who would expect hoarse cries of "Dee-fense! Dee-fense!" from a bathing-suit salesman dressed in a robin's-egg blue sports jacket and ocher slacks...
...times, the contest in Tennessee's Sixth District resembled a rehash of war games. Incumbent Democrat William Anderson, 62, made references to the fact that he had skippered the nuclear-powered Nautilus under the North Pole; Republican Challenger Robin Beard, 33, recently the state personnel commissioner, countered by noting that his Marine unit had handled the offshore recovery of a Gemini space shot. In the end, however. Beard won for far more prosaic reasons?the district had been redrawn to include 51,000 white, conservative voters, mostly from a Shelby County suburb appropriately named "Whitehaven...
...Robin Taylor, who as chairperson of the Abortion Task Force of the National Organization for Women organized the effort to put the referendum on the ballot, responded yesterday to Riley's charges...