Word: walls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Green ran into a masked and padded wall by the name of John Hynes, who culminated his sterling 32-save performance with six or seven stops in the last few short-manned minutes, to give Harvard its first victory in 22 days and five games...
Buffeted by winds of up to 110 m.p.h., a 42-ft. Coast Guard pilot boat, the Can Do, capsized and sank in Salem Harbor. The captain and the four-man crew were drowned. In nearby Nahant, Melvin Demit, 61, was lighting the furnace in his basement, when a wall of water crashed into his house and engulfed him. In Scituate, a raging sea swept five-year-old Amy Lanzikos to her death just as a rescue boat was bringing her to safety...
...normal political terms, Califano's job would be considered wall-to-wall frustration. "I love it," he says with a grin, running his stubby hand through his hair as he prepares to rush off to another fray. He is constantly visible, magically at the focal point, part family counselor, physician, lawyer and preacher...
...computational power, the micro processor almost matched the monstrous ENIAC - the first fully electronic computer, completed in 1946 - and performed as well as an early 1960s IBM machine that cost $30,000 and required a CPU that alone was the size of a large desk. On his office wall, Hoff still displays Intel's original advertisement: "Announcing a new era of integrated electronics ... a microprogrammable computer on a chip...
...recorded in 1962. Fifty-nine more were returned in the next ten years, and another 145 in the past five. Under economic pressure, several insurance firms began an aggressive public relations campaign, including up to $10 million worth of hard-hitting "advocacy advertisements" in publications such as TIME, Wall Street Journal and New Republic. The ads point to "windfall awards" and suggest that jurors must eventually pay for them through higher premiums...