Word: tandem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...versatility. In running up a 6-3 record, New England stunned Miami, Los Angeles and Minnesota. The Patriots, who could do no better than win 20 of their last 70 games before this season, now have one of the highest-scoring offenses in the league. Their running tandem of Sam Cunningham and Mack Herron leads the N.F.L. in yardage, and no wonder. Cunningham, 6 ft. 3 in., rumbles through tacklers like a steamroller, and "Mini Mack," 5 ft. 5 in., slithers past the defense like a greased...
...relationship with French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing against an attack by an opposition Deputy. "It's true that we have friendly relations," boomed Schmidt, "but it would be a great mistake to interpret this, as the French press has done, as if it were a tandem. A tandem, the way I understand it, is a bicycle on which two pedal but only one steers...
...major Presbyterian bodies were separated last week by only six blocks-and more than a century of history. As in other denominations, Northern and Southern Presbyterians split on the slavery issue in 1861. Efforts to heal the rift brought the churches' two general assemblies to tandem meetings in Louisville last week, with a joint session for the formal unveiling of a plan for reunion. But the encounter was still as tentative as the mating dance of sand crabs...
...find drew an admission from the White House last week that two typists had independently transcribed the same portion of a meeting between the President (P) and Assistant Attorney General Henry E. Petersen (HP) on April 16, 1973. The overlap slipped by, and the two versions appeared in tandem in the published transcript as separate conversations. The error was not caught sooner because the versions differ so markedly, underscoring the House Judiciary Committee's argument that only the tapes will suffice as evidence in its impeachment inquiry. Comparisons of parts of the two versions...
Fourth-seeded, the 'Cliffe tandem started slowly on Saturday, struggling to subdue a pesky entry from Cornell, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1. But a practice session between matches paid dividends as Thal and Muscatine rebounded to thrash Smith...