Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dartmouth excited the estimated 1000 spectators and roared back from a 10-point deficit late in the second-half behind sophomore Adam Sutton and senior captain Bill Raynor. Raynor hit two twenty-foot jump shots in the last minute to tie the score...
...Adam B. Ulam, director of the Russian Research Center, also located at 1737 Cambridge St., told administrators he prefers the group's present location to the Kennedy site. "We have our own library and we're comfortable. It's old, hard to clean and the dusts gets in, but I don't like sterile antiseptic places anyway...
What's more, the future bodes perhaps darker omens for Dartmouth's "Green Knights." O'Connor will floor a predominantly sophomore team of guards Bill Raynor and Jim Beattie, forwards Adam Sutton and Bill Healey, and 6 ft. 8 in. big man Mark Donoghue...
...much as the conservatism of advertisers, who prefer the lesser risk of wrapping their commercials around variations of a tried and true formula. Attempts to vary that formula have stretched as far as TV writers' imaginations can fetch. The good guys come in wondrous array: in uniform (Adam-12, The Rookies), in disguise (Toma), in court (Perry Mason, Owen Marshall) and in hayseed (Lawyer Hawkins, McCloud). They are black (Shaft, Tenafly), elderly (The Snoop Sisters), bald (Kojak), Polish (Banacek), portly (Cannon), paralytic (Ironside) and partly computer (The Six Million Dollar Man). They work alone (Mannix), in pairs (The Streets...
...climb to the top of Adams or any of the other six Presidentials which jut above the timberline is tough and risky enough to bring die-hard climbers back year after year. But Adam's attraction just begins with its Himalayan similarities. Ask any climber who knows the range well and chances are he'll describe Adams as a mountain which hikers worship: Washington is too commercial and can be reached too easily, Clay and the lesser known peaks are too non-descript. Madison and Monroe have large Appalachain Mountain Club Huts on their sides, and Jefferson is too much...