Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never heard of such a thing." The general audience is indeed something to stretch Anglo-Saxon and North European credulity. It is a religious occasion presided over by the spiritual leader of 600 million Catholics; yet at times it resembles nothing so much as Shea Stadium on banner night, with overtones of the Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall, the National Spelling Bee and the state fair...
...furor over Harvard's I.R.A. boycott is fairly recent, actually. As late as 1965, when Harvard's dominance was unquestionable, Sports Illustrated considered the Syracuse regatta little more than a runner-up event, and that year, after Navy had upset the field there, the magazine ran a banner headline over its story that read-CHAMPIONSHIPS MINUS THE CHAMP. The cover showed a montage of coach Harry Parker and "The World's Best Crew," and inside. Whall was saying, "When Harvard shows up competition seems to vanish." Later than a month later, however, the Vesper Boat Club defeated the Crimson...
...Tuesday, March 12, after 95 people had applied for the job and 26 had been interviewed, the CRIMSON ran a front-page banner proclaiming that Yovicsin was the winner. The prize was a football team which had won two games the year before, and three games the year before that at a college where losing had become a tradition ever since the departure of Robert Fisher...
...first thing in September. The CRIMSON's previous policy had been to advocate "anything short of war" to aid the allies, but it said that it now found that policy "untenable." The CRIMSON story on Conant's statement was printed near the bottom of the page, under a banner headline that football star Chub Peabody had been injured...
...election swung on rice-bowl issues and the fact that thousands of 18-year-olds were voting for the first time. Predicting that the youths would flock to Sirimavo's leftist banner, one Senanayake supporter complained that giving them the vote was "like giving a monkey a knife to cut its own throat." Senanayake barely retained his own seat. His party's representation in Parliament fell from 71 to 17. With her own party holding an absolute majority and her two Communist-coalition partners winning 25 seats-highest in their histories -Mrs. Bandaranaike can carry out almost...