Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...role of filler between interminable shots of the Enterprise or "that...thing" which is threatening Earth. The actors are often mere props, going through the motions trying vainly to recapture long-lost glory, not given a chance to grow by a script that, sadly, never gets off the ground. And the ending...well, its been done before, better, on Star Trek, and for much, much less cash...
...wanted to drop the course, he asked her how she would explain a withdrawal notation on her transcript to graduate school interviewers. She replied she would tell them exactly what happened; the senior tutor looked skeptical and challenged, "Don't you think you are standing on shaky ground...
...leucaena. Benge reports that in some tropical lands, leaves from the tree are eaten like candy by children and, dipped in a pepper sauce, as a tasty hors d'oeuvre by adults. Its seed pods are chewed or stewed or painted as tourist trinkets; the seeds can be ground as a surrogate for flour or coffee. Better yet, the leaves can be used for protein-rich cattle feed, and nitrogen-fixing bacteria on the roots help to fertilize the soil. Because of its rapid growth, the tree could become a vital source of the firewood still used to cook...
...killed. Seductively comic, and amusingly seductive, Smith must challenge the aggressive charmlessness of Broadway's ANTA Theater, a house to which she rightly objected. Playing the ANTA stage is like pitching a tent in the Sahara. If the agile firm of Stoppard and Smith can hold this ground, Stoppard will be most beholden to Smith...
Both teams still faced some rough moments before the final buzzer, however. At 18:07, Brown's Kevin Lovitt slammed Harvard's Rob Burns to the ground and trudged off to the penalty box to serve a two-minute minor for roughing. Before he could get very far, however, Britz arrived with his bone-crunching retaliation and received the inevitable punishment: five minutes for malicious high-sticking...