Word: handly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eager to erase the bitter memories of last week's upset loss, Harvard's aquamen seized the opportunity to play giant killer themselves yesterday, winning ten of the eleven swimming events to hand perennial national power Indiana University a 67-46 setback before 1200 highly partisan fans at Blodgett Pool...
...wolfed down alcapurrias (plantain stuffed with meat). As he rode down the main street of Ponce, whistles shrieked from atop the century-old red firehouse and a loudspeaker in a blue van barked to pedestrians: "El quiere saludarte. Dale tu mano." (He wants to say hello. Shake his hand.) They cheered wildly when he grabbed a microphone to yell, ?"Estadidad ahora!"(statehood now). On the next day, he strolled down Calle del Cristo...
...time or another. An elderly man in Juana Díaz cheered Connally lustily under the impression that he was Kennedy. Baker took no chances: as he made his rounds, a spotter moved ahead of him in the crowds to make sure that people shook the right hand. "El de los pantalones amarillos, "he repeated to onlookers (He's the one in the yellow pants...
There is a sensible rule in human affairs: Never make a paranoid feel like a pariah; it renders him more dangerous. The rule may apply to the Soviets. On the other hand, they have often in the past worked in a point and counterpoint: they followed their Czech invasion with the beginning of the détente process, for example, and the Cuban missile crisis with the test ban treaty...
...lightning-fast 500-meter sprint, through the middle distances of 1,000 and 1,500 meters and on to the grueling 5,000-and 10,000-meter endurance races. His younger sister Beth is favored in two of the four women's events. Said a Dutch father, his hand resting lightly on his son's head to guide the boy's eyes toward the Davos rink: "I tell my son, 'Look at them. Look at the Heidens, so you can say you have seen the best...