Word: alex
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Neither of the Crimson's other two lines could sustain a potent attack. Coach Rita Harer had Alex Lightfoot between Julie Starr and Sue Yunick while Reed centered Vicki Palmer and Mara MacTaggart. Despite strong individual performances by the forwards, Harvard lacked the stickhandling to penetrate...
...while last year's offense suffered from an inability to get off effective shots and passes in front of the opposing net, this year's returning forwards--notably last-year's high scorer, Alex Lightfoot, co-captain Firkins Reed, and senior Sara Fischer--know each other's styles well enough to mount a cogent team attack...
...major superhighway heading east, and at one point an ox blocks one gate of a tollbooth for several minutes. Alex and I note that all the collectors in the booths are women; an old man offers an explanation for our observation. The government, he tells us, decreed only women should collect tolls. Men, it had decided, cheated too much, pocketed too many of the toll receipts. Women are more honest...
...means you have to work outdoors, farming or building. Even on the hottest days, workers stay covered from head to toe. Some car washers in Taipei wear detachable sleeves to keep their arms out of the sun; they remove them when they rest in the shade. So Alex and I are not surprised that many of the "bathers" are fully clothed...
...same period last year. But southern Florida has a special problem. In Miami overall crime jumped 21% during the first half of 1980 over 1979 figures; the murder rate alone soared 70%, from 134 in all of 1979 to 201 so far this year. Says Miami Beach Commissioner Alex Daoud: "An absolute war is being fought in our streets at night...