Word: springly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...weekend before last Tuesday's primaries, Carter's own polling in New York showed his support melting like snow in the spring. Said a key Carter lieutenant: "We panicked Sunday because there was nothing that we could do to turn it around." It is a commentary on this primary that the very same day there was despair in Kennedy's camp. Several aides considered meeting with the Senator on Tuesday afternoon to tell him that the race was over, that he should withdraw gracefully that evening and not suffer any more humiliating losses...
Every morning, as the weak spring sunshine breaks through the mists and low clouds swathing the jagged snowcapped mountains ringing Kabul, flocks of Soviet helicopters-Mi-24 "Flying Tank" gunships and Mi-8 troop and supply carriers-lift off from the airport and roar across the city on flight paths calculated to inspire fear and respect. Thus begins the daily ritual of checking and opening the highways through Kabul Gorge, Sarobi and Jalalabad to the Khyber Pass (the east); to Ghazni and Kandahar (the south); and to the Salang Pass and the Soviet frontier (the north). Other helicopter forces...
...This spring's Crimson oarswomen undoubtedly prefer the former; they're looking ahead to regattas where they won't have to look ahead at adversary boats...
Right now, John Sorich or Greg Brown are the best bets, depending on how they throw in practice. Sorich had been slated as the top relief pitcher, but with Alevizos back he could also start. Brown, yet another freshman who has looked good this spring, throws hard but has been having control problems...
...academic adviser to the football team and the debate coach lost their jobs earlier this spring after disgruntled debaters protested that football players--including Heisman Trophy winner Charles White--were enrolled in speech courses supposedly open only to members of the debate team...