Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...withdrawal, moreover, is making for huge windfalls. U.S. officials are investigating reports that when four Special Forces camps were phased out last year, U.S. officers and men at one camp sold $5,000,000 worth of Jeeps, lumber, weapons, ammunition and wire...
Every night we'd tune the radio in to Bill Mazur, known to national audiences as the hockey telecaster - with a toupee and contact lenses - that bombed this past winter. Away games with Bill were the most fun. Mazur would sit with a noise record next to the AP wire ticker tape. It was the same cheering all the time; Mazur would just turn the volume up and down as the pitch came. But it was fun to guess what was going to be said by listening to how excited the di-da-dit on the ticker tape...
...Philadelphia Phillies won the pennant in a down-to-the-wire race with Los Angeles. There were three dominant pitchers for the Phils that year. Robin Roberts made three starts in the last five days of the season and won his 20th of the season on the final day against the Dodgers, who were a game out. Name one of the other two hurlers. One was a starter, the other was a relief pitcher who appeared in 74 games for the Whiz Kids and was named the league...
...says, "that trimming away the fat in the form of excess supplies and headquarters will result in a leaner, more mobile and more efficient combat force." Besides, Mansfield has persistently argued "that although the deployment of American troops in Europe shows the flag and acts as a trip wire to Warsaw Pact aggression, this could be accomplished just as readily with a greatly reduced force...
...unwilling to judge the case on hearsay evidence-if it demands to see the telephone company's transcript of the wire tap-the defendant may have to face a trial in the Cambridge courts...