Word: heights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BEST SCUFF/SNUFF JOB Minnesota Pitcher Joe Niekro was caught with an emery board on the mound at the height of baseball's season-long tempest over scuffed balls and corked bats. A meaner illegal substance, cocaine, stymied Mets Pitcher Dwight Gooden...
...time of bloodshed and terror. Stalin's drive to force Soviet peasants into collective farms was at its height. Those who resisted were deported or shot. Peasants destroyed animals rather than let them be confiscated by the collectives. That slaughter, along with the Soviet government's oppressive requisitions of grain from the newly formed collective farms, created a man-made famine that was raging when Gorbachev was born. Millions eventually died...
Senior Eric Reveno and junior Howard Wright are also scoring threats for Stanford. The two 6-ft., 8-in. forwards combined for 20 points a game last season. With 6-ft., 11-in. center Greg Butler, the Cardinal will have a marked height advantage over the Crimson...
...scene continued and seemed more like a Disney movie than a ballet. Clara acted like a petulent, spoiled brat. Her brother Fritz was even worse. The party--which I had always remembered as the height of elegance and high society--denigrated into a kindergarten dance festival. And over it all, the tree watched--chunky leaves and plastic ornaments...
Harvard's not without its weaknesses--boxing out for the offensive rebounds will be a Crimson sore point. Harvard has height and strong blocking ability--especially in junior forward Duncan--but still struggles on the boards...