Word: similar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While rugby is more similar to football today, it owes its beginning to soccer. In 1831, there was a soccer game played between two teams in London. Suddenly, one of the players, William Ellis. picked up the ball and ran with...
...pack, similar to an offensive line in football in that its members are the biggest players on the team, there is a loose-head prop, a pair of locks, and a hooker...
...Dukakis demonstrators apparently had a similar idea in mind, so two lines of opponents marched towards each other, the Bush side chanting "Keep the killers in jail, vote for Bush and Quayle," while Students for Dukakis '88 shouted "We like Mike...
...metropolis. City after city is trying to rejuvenate decayed downtown and waterfront areas. Skyscrapers rise like phoenixes where factories and tenement houses once stood. In Baltimore, a decrepit harborplace was turned into a yuppie shopping and eating complex in just a few years. New York's waterfront suffered a similar facelift with the creation of South Street Seaport, a shopping plaza akin to Faneuil Hall. And the trend has spread to East Cambridge...
When Tolk saw the man a few months later, the man hugged him several times. He had a job, he had friends and he was happy. "I have 40 or 50 similar stories about times when I was able to help people," says Tolk, who went on a two-year Mormon mission after his freshmen year...