Word: pointer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West Pointer Berry (class of 1948) suspects that the main reason for the incident has been the rapid expansion of the academy from 2,496 cadets to 4,417 during the turbulent decade from 1964 to 1974 that included Watergate and Viet Nam. In this period, Berry points out, American teen-agers became more questioning and skeptical, including those who enrolled at West Point. "There has been great discussion about integrity in the Army itself, most of it arising out of My Lai," says Berry. "Frankly, this is a terribly difficult time for the academy...
Eliot jumped to an 8-2 advantage as Curry took a few moon shots from somewhere around Lowell House for Leverett's early offense. Three baskets by Lewis and a two-pointer by Curry, all after offensive rebounds, helped Leverett close...
Just before the last practice runs for the men's downhill skiing event, for instance, ABC's skiing expert, a Canadian participant in the 1964 Games, traced through a map of the course with a pointer. "Here's where Jean-Claude Killy went off the edge in a practice run in 1964; and right there so-and-so got killed in a 1966 World Cup event; and that's called the Soldier Section because they found a dead soldier there in 1945." As if that wasn't enough, when an Italian named Stricker crashed on the course, ABC reran...
...scientists now estimate that the change can occur as long as ten years before a magnitude 8 quake, a year before a 7-pointer and a few months before a magnitude...
...coded progress reports by the hour. The old Southeast Asia hands walked with a little more pride among their mementos, which have never been put away, including a stuffed mongoose and a fine selection of tribal folk art. Suddenly there was a resurgence of the collapsible aluminum pointer, that riding crop of bureaucratic status. All up and down the ranks, the pointers were extended with sharp clicks, the desk officers and colonels whacking the charts authoritatively as they explained the fluid fronts, slapping their trouser legs to drive home salient points...