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...which finished seventh in the league this year, took Harvard to the final bell two times this season. And in the second game--played before a bazooka blowing horde in Troy, N.Y.--Harvard goalie John Devin was forced to make 27 saves, a high number for a team known for its stingy defense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Icemen, RPI Face-Off | 3/13/1987 | See Source »

Faith is also the basis of her fatalism. "If someone wishes to use a bazooka on me," she once said, "it's goodbye. If it's my time to die, I'll go." In the meantime, she exasperates her security men by acting as if she were protected by some invisible shield. Her sense of religion accounts too for Aquino's uncanny patience, her willingness, while awaiting what she regards as the appointed moment, to hold onto a burning match until it singes her fingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woman of the Year | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...What is needed," Lidsky concludes, "is a reactor that Dan Rather can shoot with a bazooka on-camera, and it shuts down without releasing radioactivity. That is what the MHTGR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Chernobyl-Proof Reactor? | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

...someone else run that show." Vincent Landano, 28, who married Maria Castellano, 24, in Brooklyn on May 31, dug into his own pocket to pay for the proceedings--including a vase of swimming goldfish to decorate each of the 24 tables at the reception and a couple of bazooka-like armaments that shot periodic showers of confetti and red feathers onto the dance floor. Vincent, a Wall Street broker, explains, "We wanted to do it our way. We did not want to hear from our parents that we should do this or should not do that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Scenes From a Marriage | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

LAST WEEK'S New Republic launched a powerful bazooka blast at the heart of Brown University's educational system; the article lampooned the department of semiotics, chortled over a class entitled "Rock and Roll is Here to Stay," and made light of the general superficiality of our neighbor to the south...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: The Cult of Mediocrity | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

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