Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard women controlled the game right from the onset with sophomore guards Wendy Carle and Caryn Curry quarterbacking the attack. Crimson coach Carole Kleinfelder moved Carle to the point guard position for last night's game and was pleased with the results of the move...
Alternating between a player-to-player and a zone defense, Harvard contained the Jumbo attack in the first half, but the Crimson women had their own trouble against the Tufts player-to-player defense...
Unfortunately, the examples used in the article to attack the SATs seemed ludicrous, although the arguments themselves bear some validity. I fault the article for not suggesting that Harvard must re-assess the validity of its use of SAT scores in evaluating white as well as minority standardized scores...
Skeptics may argue that amending the footnote and throwing away some Latin abbreviations hardly amount to an effective attack on the problem of scholarly gobbledygook. Perhaps not, but Van Leunen's strictures may spur a few professors and scholars into reflection. The practice of footnoting every phrase or idea that does not fit into the text quickly be comes habit-forming.5 So do many of the tics that help make so much academic writing so impenetrable. Such habits should be broken...
...Crimson women established their dominance early in the game as they controlled the boards at both ends, keeping the smaller Bates team from moving into the lane. Sophomore center Leslie Greis led the way for the Harvard attack, pumping in a game-high of 28 points as she continued her streak of high-scoring performances which have helped the women's team over the past few weeks...