Word: burial
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sophomores, they won the Ivy League championship. As juniors, when they were heavily favored to repeat on top, they were buried by both Brown and Yale. This season, the same burial occurred again, and the Crimson finished with its worst record in Restic's seven-year tenure...
Workmen, using remote-control cutting torches and closed-circuit television, are slicing up the reactor a piece at a time. The slabs are then hoisted by a crane into an 8,000-gal. water tank, and will eventually be transported in sealed containers to a burial site in the Nevada desert. The task will take another year to complete and will cost about $8 million. To pull down an average-size commercial reactor today could conceivably cost as much as $100 million, and that cost is likely to soar in the years ahead...
...since a large part of the insight one gains today into ancient cultures in general (and that of Thrace in particular) derives from the contents of burial mounds, it is well to consider this perspective when examining these works. Heroes and heroines of Greek and Persian mythology provide the subjects for many of the works, but the treatment departs often from the subject's "typical" interpretation...
...eulogies continued throughout the country, police shot and killed a 15-year-old black youth and wounded a teen-age girl at memorial services in Soweto. On Sunday Biko was given a hero's burial at his home village of King William's Town; black and white dignitaries were present to pay final tribute...
...links, saying: "Except for several horse-drawn roadscrapers all the work was done by hand. The fairways were cleaned off and the natural grass left in. The rough was very rough with clothes-ripping blueberry bushes, large boulders and many small gullies. The place was dotted with Indian burial mounds and many sandtraps...