Word: miles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beckford raced away with a dazzling hat trick, garnering firsts in the 800- and 1500-meter events before anchoring the victorious two-mile relay team. For the second week in a row, meet officials didn't have to think twice before naming Beckford the day's outstanding runner...
Hart, whose time also qualified her for the Nationals, said Kristin Linsley may have been the unsung hero of the day for Harvard. Linsley blazed to personal bests in three events, including the two-mile run, which...
Though it remained essentially a propaganda war, the quarrel between those traditional rival powers of the Middle East, Iran and Iraq, threatened last week to turn into open warfare. Following several days of mounting tensions, sporadic clashes broke out across the 700-mile Iranian-Iraqi border. Then, to the momentary alarm of capitals around the Middle East, an air battle erupted in the border area between Iraqi helicopter gunships and several Iranian Phantom jets and helicopters. There were also reports of increased military activity at Iraq's two main naval bases: Basra, on the Shatt al Arab...
Israeli army units last week moved into southern Lebanon, by now familiar territory to them, in response to a terrorist attack on one of their border settlements. An Israeli assault force probed several miles into the war-torn country with armored personnel carriers, bulldozers and more than 300 troops. The armor quickly fanned out into the six-mile-wide border enclave controlled by Israel's Lebanese Christian Militia allies. Other Israeli units, mostly infantry, moved farther north, along areas patrolled by the 6,000-man United Nations peace-keeping force that has been deployed in southern Lebanon...
...some 7,000 strong-charioteers behind chariots and horses, mounted cavalrymen, kneeling archers, thousands of spearmen, each individually sculptured and fully detailed. Scholars determined that the terra cotta army was commissioned by Qin Shihuangdi, the first Emperor of China, as a guard for his tomb, which lies nearly a mile to the west of the dig, under Mount...