Word: slams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hill in Jackson, Miss., Diana Berg flagged down a milk truck and warned the driver against going so fast. "Oh, don't you worry about me," he said. "I'm from Illinois. I can handle this stuff. Want a joyride?" Berg declined, then watched the truck slam downhill into a Volkswagen and another truck. Amazingly, no one was hurt. Says she: "My jaws were frozen into a laugh for about an hour...
...ranked matches are played first in squash so the courts were empty when number two man Clark Bain deftly won, 3-0. Any squash player would appreciate his successful mixture of lob, cross court, and slam shots. Too bad most of them were on their way to Milton...
...mainly responsible for leaving the hoopsters spiritually filleted was 6-ft. 10-in. center Bob Roma. Roma tossed in nine of thirteen field goals and capped his 23-point performance with a couple of slam dunks...
Harvard kept hitting and got the lead down to four with about five minutes to play. Then forward Nate Davis tried to slam-dunk the ball on a fast break, only to have Rogers get in his way in an attempt to draw a charging foul. Davis hit the dunk, and Rogers was charged with a flagrant foul. Both free throws were good, and The Crimson was never close after that...
Long since stripped of their electrons by the high temperatures, the nuclei of the hydrogen atoms slam together at tremendous speeds, fusing to form helium and releasing huge amounts of energy. Though the nuclear fires have been lit, the actual ignition is hidden deep within the interstellar clouds. "Nature very discreetly pulls the curtain over the act of birth," says Thaddeus. But the infant star soon makes its presence known, shining through and illuminating the obscuring cloud. This process is occurring in the Orion Nebula (see color page), the illuminated portion of a gigantic cloud of gas and dust that...