Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...family, who had a childhood. But it still may not be enough." The defense needs only one vote to save McVeigh from the death penalty. If they got it Wednesday, the most important tear of the trial will have been shed by the defendant himself. As his mother spoke, the normally stony McVeigh was seen to wipe a tear from beneath his eye. Jannie Coverdale, who lost her two grandsons in the blast, said that the tear had changed things for her. "For over a year, I have looked for some sign of emotion and it came today," she told...
...into rather humble circumstances, the brainchild of husband and wife Stanford academics Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, who were merely trying to exchange notes across the university's computer network. While Stanford's mainframes could crush even the most recalcitrant differential equations, they couldn't pass messages. The mainframes spoke a different language from the desktops at the library, and so on. The solution: a wire-stuffed box that performed a kind of simultaneous translation, enabling IBM machines to talk to Digital machines, wife to send grocery list to husband. By 1990, as the first hints of the Internet emerged...
...memorable moment was in 1996, when former secretary of defense Robert S. McNamara spoke at the Institute of Politics, saying he felt as early as 1965 that the Vietnam War was an unwinnable effort. Appelbaum borrowed a hammer from his roommate, bought some plywood and constructed a sign reading: "Vietnam: Our Cause Was Just...
...Hunt spoke on behalf of Harvard and accepted a special framed set of the new Marshall stamps from Dyhrkopp. Hunt said he will present this gift from the Postal Service to President Neil L. Rudenstine, who did not attend...
...After this past season--the way that we were able to play with such a young and small team--it spoke well for the future of the team," Arbalaez said. "They proved to themselves that they can play with an undermanned team...