Word: grounds
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Harvard Co-Captain Scott Hilinski noted how a game like Saturday's against Berkeley is an enjoyable opportunity to test the Crimson's skills against a superior opponent without losing ground in its league standings...
...seems there is a ground-swell sentiment in favor of turning the concept of a club into more than a distasteful slogan; these people want to bring such groupings into reality. In other words, it is the drive to create artificial social divisions at Harvard...
...traffic on the double-decker I-880 freeway across the street and urged a friend not to drive to night school until after the rush hour. Minutes later, Reynolds felt "a ripple." Then a neighbor screamed a warning. He ran out of his shop to find "the whole goddam ground lifting up." He grabbed a telephone pole as the sidewalk buckled beneath his feet, and looked up at a horrifying sight. A mile-long section of the freeway's upper deck began to heave, then collapsed onto the lower roadway, flattening cars as if they were beer cans. "It just...
...19th floor of Two Embarcadero, overlooking the Bay Bridge, when the quake hit. "The building began to sway gently, then more rapidly," Witteman reports. "The phone connection was broken, and then the severe shocks began." With the elevators out of service, Witteman walked down 398 steps to the ground. It was only when he got to the street and saw the blown-out third floor of the adjacent Golden Gate Bank building that he realized the ferocity of the earthquake. He pulled out his notebook and began reporting this week's cover stories...
IRON LADY. Being Ambassador to the Bahamas is not usually a training ground for the task of U.S. Customs Commissioner, yet Carol Boyd Hallett will succeed the high-profile William von Raab in that job. As Ambassador, Hallett persuaded Prime Minister Lynden Pindling to put Bahamian police on U.S. Customs "hot pursuit" overflights and later lifted the U.S. visas of Pindling cronies accused of drug corruption...