Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When the story threatens to go pallid, Drach drums up suspense. The episode of escape across the border could have come out of some prison-camp melodrama: snarling dogs, relentless Nazis armed with machine guns, and desperate scrambles through thick woods, open fields and barbed wire...
...until more funding becomes available, but Tufts, a school which formerly had no team at all, is reputed to have a squad led by three top-flight racers. Boston University's squad is also unusally strong, and University of Massachusetts, the team that chased the 'Cliffe down to the wire last year, is expected to be as strong as ever...
Although the remark on possible intervention was just a very small part of a lengthy interview, it was picked up and headlined by newspapers and wire services around the world. Standing alone, the statement almost seemed as if Kissinger were already mobilizing troops. The reaction was immediate, emotional and sharply negative. "A colonialist enterprise doomed to failure," thundered Algerian President Houari Boumedienne, reacting to his own reading of the Kissinger statement. "Gunboat policies," ridiculed Pravda. Egypt's President Anwar Sadat warned that the oil-producing Arab nations would blow up their wells rather than let them be seized...
...fall-off in quality is steep. Many local papers rely heavily on Associated Press and United Press International for national coverage. The A.P.'s Gregory Nokes and U.P.I.'s Gene Carlson dutifully summarize the zigzags of Washington policymaking and the fluctuations of various indicators, but neither wire service often attempts to dig below the surface...
There was only a wire fence separating his house from the end zone of the University's Centennial Field, so as a child in Burlington, Matthews could watch college football games from an upstairs window. Or he could jump the fence and play football himself--or baseball, or basketball. It was a well-equipped field with facilities for every sport, and Matthews played them...