Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Overtime one: a goaltender's duel, Ed ("ED-DEE!") Giacomin vs. Tony Esposito--no scoring. Overtime two: incredible. Chicago closes in for the kill on a three-on-one break. Giacomin skates out to cut down the angle; he is knocked cold by a vicious 15-foot slapshot. A Black Hawk reaches the rubber and bangs it off the post; the Rangers and their fans (except for Giacomin, who is still unconscious) gaze in horror as the puck rebounds to Stan Mikita, quintessential all-star, still one of the most accurate shooters...
...back-room battle between "the economists," who fought for a tough anti-inflation program, and "the politicians," led by Vice President Walter Mondale and Domestic Affairs Coordinator Stuart Eizenstat, who feared that such a program would alienate Democratic voters. Nor did the Administration's moneymen fully appreciate the vicious circle in which inflation weakens the dollar and a drop in the dollar spurs more inflation. Treasury Under Secretary Anthony Solomon, with Blumenthal's support, argued against doing anything to prop the dollar until its rout had degenerated into a panic-by which time the greenback had sunk...
...words. Certainly, the intemperate Third World attacks on the U.S. and Israel de served some kind of strong rebuttal. He replied to Idi Amin's ranting assault on Is rael by calling Uganda's dictator a "racist murderer." He excoriated the rest of the U.N. for tolerating vicious abuse of the world's dwindling democracies. "There are those in this country," he said, "whose pleasure, or profit, it is to believe that our assailants are motivated by what is wrong about us . . . We are assailed because we are a democracy...
DIED. W. Douglas Burden, 80, naturalist and explorer; in Charlotte, Vt. Trained in paleontology, Burden led an expedition to the Dutch East Indies island of Komodo in 1926 in search of the vicious Komodo dragon. He became the first white man to capture the reptile, the world's oldest and, at 10 ft. and 250 Ibs., largest lizard; of the 14 specimens he collected, two may be seen in the American Museum of Natural History. Burden's exploits inspired a friend, Film Director Merian Cooper, to make King Kong. Interested in filming undersea life, Burden in 1938 joined...
Stoyanovich, who had menaced freshman goaltender Wade Lau all night with blistering shots that somehow stayed out of the net, took a pass at the left point from defenseman Don Boyd, teed up, and fired home a low, vicious slapper that negated a furious third-period Harvard rally and sent a partisan capacity crowd of 4500 at Houston Field House into hysterics...