Word: skipped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American farmer. Once on the scene, the Minnesota-born actress, who likes to get away from it all at her wilderness log cabin south of Duluth, soon found herself as much at home with the harsh landscape as the "very tough, stoic" Iowans. Moviemakers, she observes, "seem to skip over this part of the world...
...transformed in mid-1982 into an ingenious recreation park by the architectural firm Roy P. Harrover & Associates. Fifty-acre Mud Island, just off the center of downtown, is now attracting national attention. It offers riverside recreation, marinas, a 4,300-seat auditorium and audiovisual displays. Kids love to hop, skip and splash down a 2,000-ft.-long contour model of the Mississippi River as they study historical and geographical markers...
...second half was dominated by tenacious defense, and just when it looked like Lowell would pull off a major upset, Currier quarterback John Frederick threw a 25-yard bullet to Sam Buchanan, who was standing alone in the endzone. Skip Gillom tied the contest as he went over on the conversion, and regulation ended...
Underdog is what they remained in the first two races, both captured handily by Liberty. While two of the Aussies' losses could be ascribed mainly to equipment failures, their nemesis loomed as Dennis Conner, Liberty's fearsome skip per. Conner defended the Cup against the Aussies in 1980, winning four out of five races. He is not an endearing man: he is anxious, abrasive and overweight, hard and unforgiving on the water. Co-author of a book called No Excuse to Lose, he has spent 6,000 hours at the helm of 12-meter boats over the past...
...simultaneously. The co-pilot (or other crew member) on Flight 007 could have simply misread the coordinates from his chart when he punched them into the computer. It is standard procedure for the other crew members to double-check these navigational entries. But airmen have been known to skip this precautionary step...