Word: pointer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...transition. Having started out in folk music. Taj's sound has changed radically within the past ten years and has matured. Whether he plays with four tubas (The Real Thing), or adapts a Carole King song originally recorded by The Monkees ("Take a Giant Step"), or sings with the Pointer Sisters (Recycling the Blues and Other Related Stuff and Oooh So Good 'N Blues), he creates tasteful, non-commercial music. And last week at Paul's Mall, with the help of his six-man back-up band, his music entwined the sounds of country blues, gospel, jazz, rhythm and blues...
Evan swung his pointer across a map board, from the Mitla through the desert to the Giddi Pass 30 miles north. "If we stay in this area," he said, "we can conduct a good defensive operation without putting the whole army in." By controlling the passes, he said, the Israelis have a 7-to-l manpower advantage over the Egyptians. The Mitla Pass outpost seemed lightly manned. Only a few squads of soldiers were camped amidst the crushed granite and sand bars. "Why don't we see any tanks or artillery?" the general was asked. He smiled. "This...
Columbia defaulted at heavyweight giving Kip Smith an easy six-pointer for the Crimson which ended the scoring...
...Bulldog's prize-winning pointer has been 6 ft. 7 in. junior Rollin Chippey. Chippey is averaging 14 points per game and eight rebounds. He will be joined up front by 6 ft. 4 in. Steve Switchenko, who is hitting at an 11-point clip, and 6 ft. 6 in. Brad Berger. The backcourt is led by Jim McGuire, the leading charity stripe man in New England...
Grant lost more than 7,000 men, most of them in the first eight minutes of battle. Before the fight, a young West Pointer noticed "that the men were calmly writing their names and home addresses on slips of paper and pinning them on the backs of their coats, so that their bodies might be recognized and their fate made known to their families at home." A bloodstained diary taken from a dead Federal had this final entry: "June 3. Cold Harbor. I was killed...