Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ciolek said that although some Boston beaches are open in the summer, it is often unsafe to swim in the Harbor's water, especially after rainstorms...
Heading out for the decisive race against New Zealand in the challenger final, he planted a thought with Tactician Tom Whidden: "Do you think the feet of our jibs are strong enough in these seas?" Well, they had been all summer. Naturally, the jib exploded. At the sound of the "boom," as Mainsheet Trimmer Jon Wright recounted for TIME Correspondent John Dunn, "everyone took off." High-wire Bowman Scott Vogel scrambled to pull the bad sail down, Mastman John Barnitt hurried to help. Pitman Jay Brown kept to his halyards. Grinders, tailors and trimmers shot off in appropriate directions, joined...
...dedicated men who gathered in Philadelphia in the spring and summer of 1787 could hardly have imagined that their handiwork would one day be feted in such fashion. "We the people of the United States," they wrote after much heated debate, "in order to form a more perfect union . . . and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and to our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America...
When relief workers flooded into Sudan last summer to address the widespread famine there, Sudan Times Editor Bona Malwal wrote a full-page protest article. He attacked foreigners who "would like to stay in their air- conditioned homes in Khartoum, where they can be close to urban amenities, luxuries and, in some cases, their racially segregated clubs...
...most popular toys of the new breed are likely to be Mattel's interactive Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future. The line of 20 toys, which will go on sale starting this summer at prices mainly in the $30-to-$40 range, could generate as much as $200 million in sales for Mattel by mid-1988. The toy line will be linked with a half-hour Captain Power program to be broadcast on Saturday or Sunday nights beginning next fall. A mixture of live action and computer animation, Captain Power -- much like preteen action cartoons -- takes place...