Word: won
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...veteran windsurfer, I must say that you can windsurf and drink beer [July 30] at the same time. The Beer Slalom in August 1977 on Martha's Vineyard is the only race I've ever won...
...festival nowadays is a protean feast. It is a group of local notables trying to put clothes on live chickens in a contest at the Hamilton County Fair near Cincinnati. It is a baseball game at the New England Clown Convention in Salem, Mass., where no one knows who won because the bases kept moving and the umpire used a fire extinguisher to settle disputes. It is Cincinnati's Don Cook, who takes pride in being able to grow an instant beard by letting bees swarm to his chin. It is 102 vintage ships (minimum age: 25 years) sailing...
...feeble effort to unite diverse factions into a national conservative party. Today's New Right has different priorities. It stresses 1) the creation of coalitions among special interest groups, 2) support or opposition on specific legislation and 3) concentration on Senate and House seats that can be won. Says William Rusher, publisher of National Review and an admiring expert on the movement: "These are the first conservative groups that really have got down to electoral and legislative nitty-gritty...
...eleven years since the country won independence from Spain, Macias presided over a reign of terror that took the lives of some 50,000 Guineans and drove perhaps 150,000-one-third of the remaining population-into exile...
This year the Confi Guide has devoted a special section to the Core Curriculum--its history, its requirements, its courses, and what it will really mean to your education at Harvard. It's the kind of information you won't be receiving from the University...