Word: rocketted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Someone, in other words, like John Travolta, whose own career is more like a Saturn rocket than anything on his pinball machine. As TV's Vinnie Barbarino, the dedicated underachiever of ABC's Welcome Back, Kotter, he probably draws more soulful sighs from the teenybopper set than any other star in the country. He had an important part in Brian De Palma's Carrie, and he is the star of next spring's movie version of Grease...
...indeed. After negative splitting the 200-yd. freestyle (negative split means to swim the second 100 yards in a faster time than the first 100--a difficult task, as any swimmer will tell you), the prodigious freshman got to rest for as long as it took Malcolm Cooper to rocket back and forth across the pool before he swam the 200-yd. Individual Medley. He won that race, beating out Crimson co-captain Duncan Pyle, in the very impressive time...
Egyptian embassies were attacked in four capitals. In Athens, a band of Arab protesters were chased off with gunfire that killed one of them; in Beirut, another man died when rocket fire hit the embassy; in Damascus, small bombs exploded outside the Egyptian building; in Tripoli, Libyans burned the embassy...
...critics argue that the expected agreement puts sharp limits on the cruise missile, which promises to be vital to the U.S. arsenal, without imposing sufficient curbs on a number of threatening Soviet weapons systems, notably the long-range Backfire bomber and the SS-18 rocket, which can carry eight independently targetable warheads. Another Administration nemesis (also a Democrat), former SALT Negotiator Paul Nitze, has declared that by 1985, when SALT II would expire, the U.S.S.R. would be in a position to launch three times as many land-based nuclear warheads as the U.S., and the U.S. Minuteman missile system will...
...also unload a rocket with both his slap shot and his wrist shot. The Edmonton, Alberta, native tallied for eight goals and five assists in the 1976-77 campaign. If he improves control of his shot, last year's leader in penalty minutes could add a spark to Harvard's goal-scoring attack...