Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story of Piazza's semi-demise began at the starting line, where the runners were forced to stand for an unusually long time before the gun was fired. Pottetti, freezing in the pouring rain, looked around him and saw Penn coach Jim Tupenny holding an umbrella over Piazza. "When I saw that I said to myself that there was no way I wasn't going to beat that boy," Pottetti said after the race...
PENN-YALE: Some of us saw last Saturday what Penn can do. We also saw what it can't do, which is a good deal. Quarterback John Brown expects to realize today his life dream: scoring a touchdown. But the Elis should score more than enough to make up for whatever Penn does in this game, which has all the glamour of the Battle of Kookamonga. Yale may have lost to Dartmouth, but that's excusable, and there isn't much chance that the Elis are feeling cocky after that loss. "Killer Joe" Massey is turning into...
Warning Shot. After Flight 85 left Los Angeles, Stewardess Tanya Novacoff saw Minichiello fiddling with something under his seat. "Oh, I'm putting together a fishing rod," he explained. The fishing rod was the carbine, and a few minutes later Stewardess Charlene Delmonico was marching up to the cockpit in front of Minichiello with the weapon in her back. "I mean business," said Minichiello...
...taking in revenue of $75 million annually, primarily from arranging tours and selling traveler's checks, but these activities contributed little directly to net income. Most of that came from investing the "float" of money paid for traveler's checks that had not been cashed. Clark saw that the traveler's-check business, in effect, was a license to print money. Investing the float, which now bulges to $750 million, gave Amexco experience that would be useful in running other financial services. Clark also saw that the immediate recognition Amexco's name had won from tourists...
Marty got pregnant this summer. She was looking much better when I saw her last week, and I told her so. "That's because I've lost weight," she said, patting her stomach. She talked about her trip to London. "Tim and I flew in Thursday night. Friday I saw my doctor and the two psychiatrists. It was strange-they asked me questions like did I have any previous history of mental illness and did I get along with my parents and all. I said that I'd been through the usual number of hassles but that I was basically...