Word: waded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...started only 30 seconds into the match when the Jumbos' Jim Wade headed in a Matt Troxell corner kick. From there he led the Crimson through a nightmare of sluggish defense and play-the-opposition's-frantic-style offense. The game was uncharacteristic of a team that almost defeated Brown just three days earlier...
Inside the court, every seat was taken by the time the principals began arriving. Archibald Cox, Harvard law professor, former Solicitor General and special Watergate prosecutor, was resplendent in black cutaway, striped tie and a matching gray crew cut. So was Wade McCree, in the Solicitor General's traditional morning coat. At precisely 10 that Wednesday morning, the court clerk intoned "Oyez, oyez," and the nine black-robed Justices suddenly appeared from behind red velvet curtains and settled into their seats at the elevated bench. The stage was set for what could turn out to be the most important...
...White House hopes that the fact that the brief was originally drafted by two blacks-Solicitor General Wade McCree and Assistant Attorney General Drew Days III-might help to mute some of the expected criticism...
...fence are antipersonnel mines and automatic-firing machine guns that are triggered by an electronic eye and set up to hit, variously, at knee, head or chest level. One part of the old system remains: hungry police dogs on long wire leashes still roam along the fence. Muttered Cadet Wade Schieber, a West Point third-year man assigned to summer border-patrol duty: "It's hard to imagine the dreadfulness of this until you see it. It sure isn't any New York-New Jersey state line...
...women's competition also produced a crowd-pleasing winner-and a new title for an old favorite. Britain's Virginia Wade-"Our Ginny'- had appeared in 15 Wimbledons, always to crumple under the pressure of carrying her nation's hopes. This time, Wade, now 31, fought her way into the finals against Holland's solid Betty Stove, 32, who at 6 ft. 1 in., 160 lbs. is the strong -and slow-journeywoman of the circuit. In the first set of their face-off the Wade Wimbledon Choke appeared ready to repeat itself as the Englishwoman...