Word: tandem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mleczko and Howard ganged up on the Wheaton defense, and the attacking combo led the way for the Harvard offense. After 9:30 of the first half, the Mleczko-Howard tandem finally connected, as Howard centered to Mleczko who--while still lying on the ground--poked the ball into the Wheaties...
...writing can juggle these clashing qualities more adroitly than Roth. Also on display are other Roth virtues: an uncanny sense of pacing and an ear for dialogue that approaches perfect pitch. Roth can wring acid comedy from the dishrag of kitchen quarrels. Kepesh recalls a tandem tantrum he had with his wife: " 'I don't believe I am having this discussion,' she says. 'Life isn't toast!' she finally screams. 'It is!' I hear myself maintaining. 'When you sit down to eat toast, life is toast. And when you take...
...crushed at such a lack of response. De Niro gets edgy when it goes the other way. "I feel uncomfortable at parties when people look at me," he told TIME Correspondent Jean Vallely. And growing numbers of people these days are looking at him and for him. In tandem with the release of New York, New York, De Niro (disguised as Saxophonist Jimmy Doyle) appeared on the covers of a couple of national magazines. This blitz may not have blown De Niro's cover, but Doyle had better be careful when he goes out. De Niro receives ten scripts...
...object indirectly, by measuring its carbon-14 radioactivity. The new technique being developed by Professor Harry Gove of Rochester and his fellow researchers measures the amount of carbon 14 directly. The scientists place a sample of the object to be evaluated in Rochester's tandem Van de Graaff particle accelerator. The machine separates carbon 14 and carbon 12, an atom that also accumulates at a steady rate but does not decay, from all other atoms in the sample. By comparing the ratio of these two types of carbon, the researchers can then calculate the age of the object under...
...Crimson's number one doubles tandem of Katie Ditzler and Captain Denise Thal ran over their opponents on their way to a 10-5 triumph...