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Word: spheres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last long--only to the 20:20 mark of the first half. Although the Harvard defense had been containing--if not dominating--the Yale attack, Colin McElvoy sent a pass from deep in the left corner of the Crimson defensive zone to teammate Alberto Ruocco, who gunned the sphere past Erulcar from the seven-yard mark...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Booters Squeak By Elis, 2-1, End Slate With 10-4-1 Mark | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

...most extraordinary kind, Saturn was relatively unknown. It is a gigantic swirling gaseous ball, mostly hydrogen and helium, that could encompass 815 earths, but even with the best telescopes and the most settled atmospheric conditions, it had never been seen as much more than a fuzzy yellow ringed sphere. Now, in a flash of binary bits across space, it had become a clearly recognizable place under the sun, with its own wonders, surprises and mysteries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visit to a Large Planet | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

...edge of the ring system. They were designated 513 and S-14, because they are the 13th and 14th to be discovered. 513 circles Saturn just outside the so-called Fring, which is about 80,000 km (50,000 miles) from the planet's cloud tops -the gaseous sphere has no real surface. 514 revolves just inside that ring. Like dogs herding sheep along a narrow road, the outer moon seems to be keeping ring particles from flying off into space, while the inner moon stops them from falling toward Saturn-as one scientist put it, "controlling an unruly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visit to a Large Planet | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

...have to wait long for the next reason to clap their frozen hands, as Lance Ayrault put it in at 27:32. Offensive catalyst Mauro Keller-Sarmiento made a long run down the right sideline and sent a nice cross over the middle to Ayrault, who chipped the sphere in for his team-leading seventh goal of the season...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Booters Trounce Bruins, 4-0 | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...number of high-priority items. Reagan would move quickly to submit a tax program and a revised 1981 budget containing some spending cuts. Another early goal: some attention-getting elimination of Government regulations that affect business. A tyro in foreign affairs, Reagan probably would move more slowly in that sphere. But because he is a suspect stranger in capitals abroad, he would be likely to make some early gestures of reassurance to U.S. allies. One crucial difference between Reagan and most previous Presidents taking office for the first time is that, because of his age, Reagan would start out widely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Meet the Real Ronald Reagan | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

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