Word: amongst
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heck of a schedule didn't keep the team and its players from distinguishing themselves. The squad assembled a 12-9-1 mark and counted amongst its wins victories over formidable Colby and St. Lawrence clubs. In the Ivy League, success was harder to find and the team managed a fourth-place finish with a 4-5-1 slate...
...time of transition in the Kremlin and a time when American policy and overtures can make a difference. American policy that is, not blustering. As former Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. Averell W. Harriman noted last week, this is "a time for caution;" the Soviet leaders will be jockeying amongst each other for position and in the next week or so, the Kremlin will have a new leader. The choices range from younger, more worldly candidates like Mikhail Gorbaschev to the more conservative Konstantin Chernenko and Grigory V. Romanov, but speculation also includes the hawkish Defense Minister Dmitri F. Ustinov...
There comes a time when such excuses become a crutch, and serve no useful purpose, as they have for Israel. Its neighbors are as divided amongst themselves as they are united in anger against Israel. The fact that Israel has few friends internationally is a result of Israel's obstinacy, not any global anti-Semitism. And the country's youth is no excuse--all of the Middle East in a sense is new, having been cut out of whole cloth after World...
...HAVE ALWAYS been good at talking to each other about women; likewise, women have always been able to discuss men amongst themselves. And throughout the ages both sexes have demonstrated considerable combative skill against each other (although women on the whole have made more impressive use of the frying...
...those of the girls, but of their grandmother. The girls reveal her hardships, from poverty and disastrous marriage to the sudden wealth which allowed her to buy the farm. Lil Krauss's five daughters, May, Elinor, Libby, Grace and Rachel, also come alive through the narrators; the startling distinctions amongst them, the subtle tensions, and their relationships with their husbands are brought to light under the granddaughters' watchful eyes. When the illness and subsequent death of one of the five sisters touches the family, the complex web of emotion and experience that binds the three generations of women is gradually...