Word: spans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weary Harvard softball team that faced Holy Cross yesterday at Soldiers Field. Playing four games in a 24-hour span and six games in less than two days, the Crimson (7-8) just couldn't seem to get the bats going. Holy Cross (8-8) swept the doubleheader winning the first game, 4-0, and taking game...
...sense, the Valdez tragedy begins not in Alaska but on Long Island, N.Y. There, in 1985, Captain Joseph Hazelwood was convicted of drunken driving. Last September in New Hampshire, he was again found guilty of driving while intoxicated. In a five-year span, his automobile driver's license was revoked three times. Hazelwood is still not permitted to steer a car, but he retained his license to command a ship -- why, no one can satisfactorily explain. In 1985, after Hazelwood informed the company about his drinking problem, Exxon sent him to an alcohol rehabilitation program. The company says...
Invisible behind the plethora of pages in the OED2 are hidden commands heralding an advance that will revolutionize the way it -- and perhaps all reference books -- is used in the future. Amazingly, this entire venture was conceived and completed within a span of seven years. A. Walton Litz, a professor of English at Princeton and a member of the Oxford University Press advisory council, says, "I've never been associated with a project, I've never even heard of a project, that was so incredibly complicated and that met every deadline." Some of this speed and success can be attributed...
...real reason Republicans picked Gingrich has nothing to do with his legislative ability or ethics. It is because Gingrich creates controversy. He yells at Democratic representatives during congressional sessions and mercilessly riducules them for hours late at night on C-Span. He is the Morton Downey Jr. of the House of Representatives...
LANSING, Mich.--Northern Michigan exploded for three goals in a 2:32 span midway through the second period en route to a 9-5 triumph over Providence in the first game of a best-of-three NCAA Division I hockey playoff series last night...