Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pitchers in those days fired the ball underhand, standing only 45 feet from the plate. A "cross-fire" was created by the pitcher moving along a six-foot painted strip from which he made his delivery. In short, before Thayer's brainstorm the lot of the backstop was "nasty, brutish, and short...
...Chicago's North Side, a visitor quickly notices the changed city scene: male couples in tight jeans and with close-cropped hair walk together; the crowd watching a volleyball game in Lincoln Park is all male, so are most of the people taking the spring air on a strip of beach along Lake Michigan. In the past few years New Town has become Chicago's first center of open homosexual activity, with an initial result that could have been predicted a decade ago: last summer roving gangs of young toughs shouting anti-homosexual epithets beat up a number...
...Faculty did take some steps against ROTC--voting in February, 1969, to strip ROTC courses of academic credit, and to revoke the Corporation appointments of ROTC instuctors--but it overwhelmingly rejected the SDS demand that Harvard expel ROTC from campus. Gen. C.P. Hammun, national director of the ROTC program, announced the next day that the prospects of keeping ROTC were "extremely good...
...quake killed 235 people and injured more than 1000 along the Adriatic coast of Southern Yugoslavia and Albania while destroying buildings along a 60-mile strip of coastline including the resort region of Montenegro...
...policy also promises much political pain and peril for Carter. The essence of his program is to strip away the controls that have held the cost of domestically produced crude oil at artificially low levels ever since the postembargo days of 1974. Next month, using Executive authority, he will order a gradual phase-out of the controls so that they will be entirely eliminated by Oct. 1, 1981, when by law they would have expired anyway...