Word: fells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cold enough to preserve the trucked-in snow on the cross country course. Cold enough to save the man-made snow-the first used in the 70 years of Dartmouth Carnivals-on the ski jump. But most of all it was desperately cold of Harvard skiers as the men fell to their second consecutive last place finish while the women slid to a disappointing ninth place...
Penn's Roger Reina managed to reverse McNerney twice while the 126-Iber. tried to shift to the cradle, then fell victim to McNerney's unorthodox but heads-up style for a 9-6 loss...
...than the new need for common cause. Negotiations were frustrated from the outset when the tough but relatively small Afghanistan National Liberation Front, led by stern Sigbatullah Mujaddadi, balked at sitting down with the others for fear of having to cede authority to larger groups. Other rebel factions soon fell out over ideological differences...
...dressing room beneath the stands, the roar of the 103,985 spectators rose and fell like the sound of distant breakers. Then, suddenly, the game was over-and the first black-and-gold jerseys appeared at the end of the floodlit passageway leading from the Rose Bowl playing field. The huge Pittsburgh Steelers ran with mincing steps, cleats sliding nervously on the concrete. Their eyes glittered with exhilaration, and some threw back their heads and whooped triumphantly...
...photographs proving that during a gallop all four of a horse's hoofs leave the ground. His series became the basis for motion picture photography, and today the man should be as celebrated as Thomas Edison, to whom he was once compared. But Muybridge's pioneering works fell between the stools of still photography and cinema, and at the time of his death, in 1904, he was all but forgotten. Even the contemporary fascination with photography has not elevated Muybridge to his proper place. These volumes may redress the balance. With the exactitude of a scientist...