Word: tide
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Anaheim and next Tuesday will have a chance to snap at Phoenix, but it really doesn't matter: at this point the only thing that could stop those tasty little devils from running away with the World Team Tennis Eastern Division would be an invasion of the Red Tide. Or maybe just a taste of Red Sox good luck...
...emerald tide in Atlantic City, the only U.S. city outside Nevada that permits casino gambling, has not escaped the attention of other states. A group called Let's Help Florida, which hopes to rejuvenate decaying Miami Beach with casino gambling, claims to have enough voters' signatures to hold a referendum on the issue this November. But Governor Reubin Askew is organizing a statewide campaign to fight the proposal. The New York legislature has approved a state constitutional amendment to allow casinos. If the same measure is approved a second time, next year, as required by state...
...Elim massacre-the most savage assault on whites in Rhodesia's history -was part of a rising tide of violence that threatens to engulf the breakaway British colony. Only days after Elim, two German Jesuits were killed by black nationalist guerrillas at St. Rupert's Mission, 90 miles west of Salisbury, bringing the black and white civilian death toll to almost 600 so far this year. The guerrillas have also suffered losses-not all of them in raids and counterattacks by the Rhodesian army. In nearby Zambia, a top lieutenant to Joshua Nkomo, one of the co-leaders...
...then that women don't like me at all; then that they like me too much again. Somewhere along the way they say that I secretly like men?but then that men don't like me! I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes...
Women may well retort that the men should clean up their act, but it would be a tragedy if women cannot avoid mistakes and exploit the opportunity that lies before them. The revolution in women's athletics is a full, running tide, bringing with it a sea change?not just in activities, but in attitudes as well. Of sport and its role in preparing both sexes for adult life, Harvard Sociologist David Riesman says: "The road to the board room leads through the locker room." He explains that American business has been "socialized" by sport. "Teamwork provides us with...