Word: allene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Five minutes later the Crimson frosh lit up the goal light at the UMass end. With a Redman in the penalty box, right wing Peter Owen deflected an Allen Peacock slap shot past the UMass goaltender...
...military-plane crash, had assured her she would like his mother, but the hard, hostile woman (Rosemary Murphy) she finally meets bears little resemblance to his fond descriptions. Patty's only friend at the forbidding family estate is her husband's half-witted sister (Sian Barbara Allen), who babbles incomprehensibly while pressing a newspaper clipping into Patty's palm. Apparently a homicidal rapist is loose (Screenwriter Heims doesn't miss a trick) and, good heavens!, he looks just like the ne'er-do-well nephew (Richard Thomas), who turns out to be hiding...
...segregation," says Adele Allen, Brooklyn-born black president of student government at Wellesley. "When I socialize, I prefer to hear James Brown, not Joan Baez, and when I'm at a party, I prefer to have black men around. This is not segregation; it's a matter of personal taste...
...says Arthur Jones, an instructor at California State University at Northridge. This defensive view understandably derives from the years of white hostility-partly still real, partly imaginary-and it is worsened by the fact that some blacks are ill-prepared, either academically or psychologically, for college. Wellesley's Allen says she was patronized when she first arrived: "The attitude was, 'You are underprivileged, you are behind and need help, you are not as good as us.' " In short, says Paul Black, director of minority affairs at Northwestern, "the white-student milieu was just too different for assimilation...
...want to look in my locker room and see bald old men, guys who have been through it-winners." That was the demand made by George Allen when he took over as coach of the Washington Redskins last year. After 19 trades involving 33 players, Allen got what he wanted: the oldest* and most experienced team in the National Football League-plus one. For all his attention to aging veterans, Allen wisely held on to Running Back Larry Brown, a Redskin holdover who in size (5 ft. 11 in., 195 Ibs.) and years (25) is a comparative toddler. The combination...