Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NORFOLK, Va.--One of the Navy's last diesel-electric submarines wallowed helpless on the surface yesterday awaiting a salvage vessel after an underwater explosion and toxic fire injured 22 sailors and left three missing...
...perils of early testing became clear last summer to administrators of the Norwood-Norfolk central school district in New York. A shocking 61% of children hoping to enter kindergarten there failed a standard test for readiness. After they were consigned to a special two-year kindergarten, a study showed that the test had a 50% margin of error...
...NCAA tournament is called The Road to the Final Four, while the interesting--but overlooked women's NCAA tournament--is called The Road to Tacoma. In the East region, Tennessee (29-2) meets James Madision (27-3) while Virginia (26-4) battles Rutgers (27-4) today in Norfolk...
...hint that his southern campaign will concentrate on urban areas, Dukakis mentioned Miami, Atlanta, Norfolk and Selma in his speech. The governor insists, however, that he will campaign in all parts of the South...
...farm, Wiggins walks among his mallard ducks, chickens, geese and a Norfolk terrier named Red that once belonged to the late White. The elders among the geese -- Arthur, the old gander, and Jezebel, the goose -- are often featured in Wiggin's Aesop-like bimonthly column. Once a "mover and a shaker," he steered the Washington Post's coverage of every crisis from the Berlin Wall to the Viet Nam War. No more. "You can't flatter yourself in the belief that you can leverage the world from the perimeter of Ellsworth, Me.," he says. "But I enjoy rural life...