Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was no scoring in the third period. The Yardlings blocked a Yale punt deep in Eli territory early in the final stanza, and on the next play, Richie Gatto went down the left sideline for 29 yards and a touchdown...
...three steps on those shoes -into the dinette area, which has a vinyl floor. The heels were plastic and the soles were vinyl. I never waxed the floor, so it wasn't slippery; I was very careful about that. My heel slipped on the vinyl and down I went. They had to remove my kneecap. It was a three-hour operation...
...nuclear-powered carrier Nimitz, now under construction at Newport News, Va., was estimated to cost $427 million when work began in mid-1968. Design was not complete when the contract was signed. Some deliveries of parts were late, and the builder's costs went up. Overruns now exceed $116 million, and the Navy has no choice but to settle up. Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., owned by the Houston-based conglomerate Tenneco, is the only yard in the U.S. big enough to put together carriers of the Nimitz class...
...became a U.S. institution and generated the growth of Hershey Foods Corp. (assets: $208 million). It survived wars, depressions and rising taxes, but suffered from weight loss in recent years, shrinking from 1 oz. to ¾ oz. Last week, a victim of the rising cost of cocoa beans, it went the way of the penny licorice stick and, increasingly, the nickel pack of chewing gum. Henceforth, the least expensive Hershey Bar will cost a dime...
Before we went to sleep, we tried to figure out what was the most anarchic act possible in Washington. We decided that it would be to blow out the eternal flame on Kennedy's grave...