Word: catching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About 30 minutes before Game 3 was to be played last night, the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics were gathered on the field playing catch when they felt something...
...didn't roll over in the face of its biggest league competition. Northeastern ran its advantage to 13-0 before the Crimson got in the game--and then it was too late to be playing catch-up ball. Despite a strong late-game surge, Harvard fell, 13-12, to N.U. Saturday at Magazine Beach in Boston. The loss should hurt the Crimson's regional standing heading into the New England Champion-ships early next month...
...gray Kenyan dusk, an elephant soundlessly advances to the edge of a water hole, its trunk raised high to catch the first scent of danger. Satisfied that the way is clear, it signals and is joined by a second elephant. In ritual greeting the two behemoths entwine their trunks, flap their enormous ears and clack tusk against tusk, sending the cold crack of ivory across the Ngulia Hills. That same sound is heard 10,000 miles away in Hong Kong and Tokyo, where ivory traders stack tusk upon tusk -- more than 800 tons, scrubbed clean of blood and connective tissue...
...object to the "less is enough" approach for healthy pregnant women. They stress the need for frequent visits. "These women have a zillion questions on their mind," explains Dr. George Malkasian, president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. "The earlier you answer those questions, the earlier you catch any problems...
...similar coupons also catch the eye. Supercuts and Greatcuts, they call themselves. Impressive--almost nothing purchaseable in this world reaches these dizzying superlative peaks...