Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the early part of the first period, there was little question as to which team would come out on top. Each unit--attack, defense, and midfield--produced smooth, efficient lacrosse to contribute to the victory...
Dave Bohn, Nick Lamont, and Jerry Pyle will start the game at attack, while Tim Morgan, Dick Parks and Lanny Keyes will start at midfield. The first defensive unit includes Ed Tarlov, Bron Thayer, and Keyes, with Chris Stone in the nets...
...occasionally audible in the proceedings of the National People's Congress carried with them the possibility that in some circumstances unforeseeable now the whole thing could come a cropper: a desperate people, overworked, underfed, a trivial incident of defiance, a single lapse of authority-such as an army unit's refusal to fire on a handful of insubordinate peasants in a commune-might set off a chain reaction. No one saw such prospects now. Yet better than anyone else, Red China's outwardly confident rulers know that great leaps involve the risk of disastrous falls...
...Bill Lear was off to something new, as usual. In West Los Angeles he opened a $250,000 laboratory to put his company into solid-state physics in his search for new products. Among far-out fields to be studied: microcircuitry (e.g., reducing the chassis of a satellite television unit to a few cubic inches) and electroluminescence (e.g., picturing all of a plane's instrument readings on a cockpit window so the pilot will not have to glance away even when landing or taking off). While moving farther into the wild blue yonder, he is also readying new gadgets...
...losing to Penn last Saturday, the Crimson still turned in a fairly satisfying performance. After playing sloppy lacrosse in the first period, the team sharpened up its stickwork and charged harder. Even the defense--the weakest unit on the team so far--turned in a good performance...