Word: shocker
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...been suspicious of the Flxible 870. After all, that missing e happened to stand for elasticity. Atlanta ordered the first Flxibles-134 at about $95,000 each-and defects, from faulty air conditioning to rickety engine mounts, have kept the maintenance department working overtime ever since. But the real shocker came in New York, the city of killer potholes. New York's Flxibles began rolling in time for last summer's Democratic National Convention, and quickly became known-for their darkly tinted, malevolent-looking fronts-as Darth Vader buses. They also won immediate notoriety for breaking down...
Perhaps the best way to classify last night's game is as a "tweener," coming after the icemen's 10-2 shocker against Northeastern last Monday in the opening round of the Beanpot, but before Monday's Beanpot final with Boston College. And for Falcone and Olson, last night was all between the posts...
...Crimson gridders had an extra spring that day, swarming the field with boundless kinetic energy. As the sun-flecked mountains gleamed in the background, Harvard managed one of its most unexpected--and most welcomed--triumphs, a 15-10 shocker over the gray, gray Cadets...
...last week, Jimmy Carter pointed to a batch of upbeat statistics and happily assured a group of steelworkers that the battered U.S. economy is "recovering very well." But only four days later, and with little more than a week remaining in Campaign '80, the Government itself reported a shocker that was sure to keep the President's economic stewardship a prime concern of voters on Nov. 4-and push inflation squarely onto center stage again as the nation's No. 1 problem...
...playing its best ball of the season. Coach Frank Navarro has settled on Mark Lockenmeyer as his quarterback and the senior, also an All American pitcher, has led the Tigers to two straight victories, a 31-19 victory over Columbia and a last-minute 14-10 shocker over Colgate...