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Word: afternoon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pointer which gave Harvard its first, last and only undisputed Ivy football title, seems the final link to a different age, one that never would have permitted Crimson losses to Columbia and Cornell within a month and would have been aghast at the thought that even a victory this afternoon can produce at best a fourth-place finish in the league...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: It Seems Like Only Yesterday, When. . . . . . 'Pineapple' Took It In . . . . . . and the Wobbly Duck Was Good | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

...like the suburbs of Washington, Pretoria is completely white at night. A few black teenagers, dressed in ragged shorts and jaunty caps, sell the afternoon newspapers to passersby--only the editions designated for whites, of course. A few black housemaids live in the servants' quarters that must by law be attached to every house in white zones; a few waiters work inside Pretoria until just before the last buses go out to the black townships. But, for the most part, nighttime Pretoria seems to have accomplished the basic aim of apartheid: complete separation of the races. At night, when workers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Life in South Africa: An Outsider Goes Inside | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

...shadows of late afternoon framed "00:42" and the eight-point deficit when Champi escorted himself and his stage into the ranks of the unforgettable...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Ten Years Ago | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

...Five: Resurrection, Glory and Immortality. The field is cleared just long enough for Champi to step back and rifle the ball left to sophomore Peter Varney at the goal line. It may well be the most crisp, least frantic Champi-orchestrated call of the afternoon. Whatever, exeunt omnes...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Ten Years Ago | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

...Crimson eleven takes on a Yale squad at the Stadium this afternoon in a contest full of more history than Robinson Library. It's Massachusetts versus Connecticut, Cambridge versus New Haven (ugh), but most of all it's Harvard against venomous Yale. And for the members of the Class of '79 on Harvard's team, it's pride versus humiliation--a loss today would mean three straight shutouts by their '79 varsity counterparts in blue...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: The Season Begins and Ends Today | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

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