Word: valiante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Early Friday morning, the Inter-Continental's valiant staff abandoned the hotel after the Sandinistas declared it a military target. The remaining correspondents split up into small groups and sought accommodations elsewhere in the city. Fending for themselves might prove more difficult, but it could scarcely be any more tense. They had shared the Inter-Continental with rancorous government officials and pistol-packing Somoza sycophants, who spent their days drinking morosely and blaming the foreign press for their troubles...
This past winter more than half a dozen athletes joined the list of baseball millionaires. Like a medieval heir apparent, Pete Rose flashed his Prince Valiant haircut before a clutch of contending clubs, finally settling on the Philadelphia Phillies and their reported dowry of $3.5 million over four years. Former Minnesota Twins Star Rod Carew took his seven batting titles to the California Angels in exchange for some $4.5 million over five years. Boston Slugger Jim Rice, the American League's M.V.P. last season, agreed to a seven-year deal said to total $5.4 million and, in the process...
...wish to pursue nonsense in the name of knowledge. Let us heed the words of Mr. Restic, who cautions us that "You won't begin to cover the multiflex in one semester," and so let us in all haste fire our existing faculty and offer tenure to the valiant young men of the Harvard football team; let us replace our Professors of Philosophy, Physics and the Classics with Professors of Passing, Punting and Catching. And with Joe Restic as Dean of the Faculty, Harvard University just might stand a chance of catching up with the University of Oklahoma at Stillwater...
...lead, Hackett stepped up to the blocks for his specialty, the 1000-yd. freestyle. As the swimmers left the blocks, one jumped the gun, but--unable to hear the recall shots--they continued into the first turn. When one of the lap counters made a valiant attempt to stop Hackett, he cut the Olympian's foot open in the process. The meet stopped while Hackett was taped up by the trainers. Hackett then proceeded to reel off a smoking 9:05 in the race (certainly the fastest time in the nation so far this season), lopping a mere 30 seconds...
...there was Fred Cordova, lying face down, motionless on the Stadium grass, having missed, despite a valiant effort, the bid for a spectacular save...