Word: runway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Except for a change to a stiffer and longer pole, his style has remained more or less constant, although the Eliot House senior did have to make some adjustments since the short runway in Brigg's Cage cut more than 35 feet off his approach...
...that weren't enough, Stiles had to remove the runway after each vaulting session to make space for the baseball team which also trained in Briggs...
...look back and I can't believe I went through the trouble of putting down the runway every day," Stiles said. "I was just a freshman," he added...
...move out of Briggs Cage and onto the fast surface at the ITT in 1977 also added to Stiles's improved vaulting ability, although the hardness of the tennis courts which double as a runway "destroys your legs...
...regime of Dictator Idi Amin Dada, Soviet and Iraqi advisers lined up to board Russian transports that had been hurriedly dispatched to evacuate them. After fleeing southern Uganda, where Amin's army was crumbling in the face of a Tanzanian invasion force, nervous Libyan soldiers camped beside the runway pleading for planes to come and get them. Big Daddy himself had pulled out of his tree-lined capital, Kampala, to a command post somewhere near the Kenyan border. At week's end about the only sign of Amin's outsize presence in the city where...