Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saturday, October 14, Ithaca: Cornell Coach Jack Fouts over-sleeps and forgets to wake up his players. The Crimson plays the Big Red field hockey team. Jim Reidy notches a hat trick. Harvard 4, Cornell...
Because the new Trident is about 10 ft. longer and almost twice as heavy as the model it replaces, the missile leaves a more turbulent, gaseous wake as it rises to the ocean surface. But engineers miscalculated the amount of water that would rush into the vacuum under the missile's rocket nozzles. Investigators say these "water jets" interfere with Trident's trajectory and have led to the two mishaps. Their conclusion: the missile must be redesigned. Correcting Trident II could cost up to $20 million and delay its introduction for nearly a year...
...boys devoting their spare time to fun in the sun. Today the game is a hard-charging sport, complete with big- bucks sponsors, a 29-tournament tour of 13 states, an aggressive players' association, lucrative television deals and mobs of loyal fans. "Players used to party all night and wake up under a coffee table an hour before the game," remembers Jay Hanseth, 37, a 19-year veteran player. Now, he says, "there's so much money at stake, players take it very seriously...
...alarm at the return of the greedy speculation and electronic sorcery that are blamed for the crash. The market has reacted with near hysteria to the possibility of takeovers, first in the communications industry in response to the Time-Warner deal and now in the airline business in the wake of bids for the companies that own Northwest and United Airlines. The takeover-stock mania has coincided with the return of program trading, a system in which brokerage houses use computers to buy and sell giant blocks of stock to reap quick profits from disparities in price between the equities...
Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" pharses--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching...