Word: behind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both crews rowed graceful, if unspectacular, races, moved swiftly to the numerous Heinekens, and waited for the computer to spit out the result. Verdict: The Rude and Smooth finished 32nd; Alte Achter 33rd, 2.9 seconds behind. Youth, relatively speaking of course, had triumphed...
Junior quarterback Jeff Kemp, who has completed about one-third of his passes all season, connected on 12 of 22 for 133 yards behind five sophomores on an offensive line decimated by injuries. Big Green coach Joe Yukica pointed to his effective running attack as the key to Kemp's success...
...Council stayed behind and on May 23 voted almost unanimously to reject the CUE plan. The sole dissenting vote came from the CUE Faculty member who presented the proposal. "The issue is dead," Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of undergraduate education and a guest member of the Council, says firmly. Some never knew the issue was alive. Connie F. Magistrelli, director of the Office on Special Programs--which directs all students who apply for study abroad credit--says, "I never heard about...
...primary rationalization behind the CIA's illegal activities--"the Russians do it too, and worse, so we have to respond"--all but disintegrated. Agency men resorted to another: "We were just following orders." Though Helms and others declined to implicate the chief executives in the most sensitive operations--for example. John F. Kennedy '40 in the attempts out Fidel Castro's life--the message was clear: the CIA was not, in Frank Church's phrase, "a rogue elephant rampaging out of control." The orders had to come from somewhere...
Nathan--Alexander Portnoy disguised by a U. of Chicago education--arrives at the New England home of his aging mentor, newly popular short story writer E.I. Lonoff, whom he has never met. Here he embarks on an intellectual journey to discover both the mystery behind Lonoff's ghost-like absence from the "real world" and the secret to Lonoff's uncanny ability to characterize the Jewish anti-hero in his stories. Along the way, Nathan encounters Hope, Lonoff's lonely, bitter and jealous wife, and the enchanting Amy Bellette, his precocious and loving student...