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Word: afternoon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the start it was obvious that Engineer starter George Noll was in for a long, cold afternoon. Noll has a curve that's even money to bounce before it gets to the plate and a fastball that could charitably be called slightly sneaky...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Batsmen Blow Away MIT, 9-0 in GBL Opener | 4/11/1979 | See Source »

...early yesterday afternoon, the drive had collected 775 pints of blood towards its target of 1400, Lewis said. "I'm an optimist, but now I'm scared that we won't even reach 1200 pints," she added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blood Drive | 4/11/1979 | See Source »

When spring is near the urge to swing a golf club becomes a terrible and irrepressible force, and it was this irrepressible force that overtook Fitzgibbons yesterday afternoon. The sentiments of Fitzgibbons as he prepared to take the first swing of spring were echoed by Bernard Darwin when he wrote of his own first shot one spring long ago: "I was assured that I should be able to do it another day, but I did not want to do it another day; I may never want to do it on any other day, but I did so dreadfully want...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: The First Swing of Spring | 4/10/1979 | See Source »

...occupation had begun in the early afternoon of April 9. About 300 demonstrators had taken the building to publicize a list of six demands approved at an SDS-sponsored meeting: abolition of Harvard's Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs and contracts; replacement of all ROTC scholarships with University scholarships; reinstatement of the scholarships of students disciplines in the wake of an earlier anti-ROTC demonstration at Paine Hall; a roll-back in rents on all Harvard-owned buildings to their January 1, 1968 level; no destruction of black workers' homes to allow for expansion of the Medical School...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: The Rites of Spring | 4/10/1979 | See Source »

After the second and third doubles teams swapped victories, the outcome of the afternoon--and indeed, the course of the season--hinged on the first doubles battle between Chaikovsky-Pompan and Miller-Andrews...

Author: By John Donley, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Navy Stuns Racquetmen, 5-4, All but Shattering Title Hopes | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

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