Word: woods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest surprise came from New Zealand, which entered two innovative boats built not of wood or aluminum like traditional twelves but of fiber glass, prompting an instant nickname: plastic fantastics. One of the pair, the New Zealand II, performed remarkably, coming almost directly from the boat shed to finish second in the series. An entry sponsored by the French photo processing company Kis also broke new ground of a sort, winning special permission from rule-makers to hoist a spinnaker emblazoned with its lead entry's racy name: French Kiss. She came in fifth...
...writing protest letters were a crucial element in his struggle for survival. Another was his reading of Psalms, which he recited from memory in the punishment cells, where all books were forbidden. While there he had no opportunity to lie down during the day, and at night a wood-and-metal board was put in his cell for sleeping. "Of course, there are no blankets and no warm clothes," he says. The menu: black bread one day, followed by a day of "very poor" hot food. "This went on for 30 and sometimes 40 consecutive days." While in isolation...
Cornell's Duanne Moeser and Yale's Randy Wood still have two Ivy games left to play. but with 14 points apiece each would need monstrous efforts to pass Fusco, who averaged two-and-a-half points per game in the Ivy League...
...Nieuwendyk, Cor. 16 17 33 Tim Smith, Harv. 15 17 32 Gerard Waslen, Col. 13 17 30 Tim Barakett, Harv. 12 15 27 Pete Natyshak, Cor. 10 17 27 Mark Jooris, RPI 15 11 26 John Carter, RPI 14 12 26 R. Boivin, Colg. 16 10 26 Randy Wood, Yale 13 13 26 Bob Logan, Yale 13 13 26 The Polling Place...
...Filipinos thronged to their polling stations, problems with voting registries began to crop up almost immediately. At the Araullo High School, a rambling wood- and-concrete structure on United Nations Avenue in midtown Manila, Policeman Oligario Remiruta, 46, lined up to cast his vote. The local poll chairman could not find Remiruta's name on the voters' list. By noon, 84 people at the school had received the same treatment...