Word: fields
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Three women sit at a makeshift table in the middle of a temporary summer encampment. The field is studded with hundreds of pup tents. A senior talks about cadet life and the coming graduation. Another woman walks casually by in shorts and T shirt, her platinum hair neatly blown in a Dorothy Hamill haircut. The reporter is startled by her own instinctive response: How could this gorgeous girl be headed for an Army career? The thought is broken by an angry shout. Off to the side, male cadets are snidely calling to the women to come to formation. "Buzz...
Opening day, Toronto, April 1977: About 45,000 fans, formerly hockey devotees cram Exhibition Stadium by the shores of Lake Ontario to witness the Blue Jays' home debut. Souvenir ticket stubs go for a buck, cokes for 95 cents. One minor problem delays the game: the field is blanketed in snow...
America is a land of invention, with a long tradition of the pioneer spirit of doing-it-yourself. Nowhere is this creative genius clearer than in the field of religion, for in its short life as a nation America has yielded up Mormans and Pentecostals, Seventh Day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses and Christian Scientists, Theosophists and Transcendentalists. Immigrants from all over the world have brought their native faiths to the U.S., further increasing the potency of the mixture. But at no time in the nation's history have there been so many and varied spiritual practices, some wholly new, some...
...impressive knack for trading classroom brains for on-the-field smarts enabled the Crimson co-captain to make the most of his gifts...
...siege would last long. How, short of guns and physical violence, would protesters maintain a presence if police wanted them out? Continuous arrests, continuous gassing, even a simple counter blockade to cut off food supplies--the prospects are not good. Napoleon Bonaparte, a man with credentials in the field, once remarked, "It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it." The New Hampshire police are equipped to deal with boltcutters--they have better equipment, and they are prepared...