Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...helmet. The desperate Ray headed uphill, past a gravel road used for hauling coal. Chapman could hear him crashing through the bush. For a man who had been on the run for more than two days, Ray showed remarkable endurance. All the hours he had spent in the prison yard playing volleyball to develop his legs and lungs were paying off-for a while...
Green appeared to have the championship in his back pocket when he went two shots into the lead by birdieing the par-five 16th. He rifled a wedge shot that to use one of his own favorite expressions "came down like a butterfly with score feet" within a yard of the flagstick...
Then there are the stores that serve really good ice cream, or try to. Baileys, at 21 Brattle, is famous for its large, good and expensive cones and sundaes. Belgian Fudge, on Mass Ave across from the Yard, may serve the best ice cream and frozen yogurt in the Square. Although it doesn't have the spread of flavors available at Baskin-Robbins and Brigham's, it has much more interesting ones...
...admiral and his wife Patricia are living in an officer's house at the Washington Navy Yard. He plays tennis at 6:45 a.m. twice a week on Navy courts with a neighbor, Vice Admiral Robert Monroe. He jogs in the evening with his golden retriever Hornblower, occasionally plays squash at the Pentagon...
...intelligence about the Moluccans' activities came from listening devices planted by marines who had crawled up to the train a few nights before the attack. When the plan was ready, the troops involved carried out exercise attacks on a duplicate of the hijacked train at a nearby shunting yard...