Word: wend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bruins took possession trailing 30-23 and proceeded to wend their way 68 yards for the final score of the game. Whipple completed a pass at Harvard's 13 to Marty DeFrancesco, who ran inside the 10 with 4:11 left in the game. Two plays later, Whipple went to the air again and found Frank Boucher open in the endzone...
...Boston, hundreds of artists and performers labored to prepare free, outdoor art shows and concerts for a New Year's Eve celebration. Like a scene from a 19th century print, Bostonians by the tens of thousands will wend their candlelit way past sculpture and singers, gathering on the Common for fireworks and communal cheer. In Beverly Hills, Calif, 2,000 people had been expected at a modest tree-lighting ceremony; 15,000 showed up. The once tattered social fabric is being rewoven. Across the country, charities report sharp increases in donations of all kinds. In Portland, Ore., the United...
From time immemorial-or at least since the first U.S. census was taken in 1790-the head of household has been identified for every house, hovel, plantation, apartment, coop, condominium, igloo and wigwam to which an intrepid census taker could wend...
Overall, the package seemed well designed to wend its way past the broadest political hazards. It appeases some conservatives by letting oil and gas prices rise?but does not offend liberals by removing controls completely or allowing the producers to reap higher profits. It encourages coal production and conversion, as well as a speedier expansion of nuclear power plants, without lifting environmental safeguards...
McCurdy felt both Fitzgibbons and Campbell "didn't run as well as they might have the second mile because they were unfamiliar with the rough terrain," as the harriers had to wend their way through the rock outcroppings that littered the course...