Word: besting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...female leads, the three little maids are endearing even within the limits of their parts. Patte Tuell (Yum-Yum) is coy and free of squelch, while Ellen Zachos' soprano is probably the show's best. Jacqueline Meily (Katisha) is a little below the rest of the cast, as she fails to belt out her ascerbic lines with the requisite spite...
...lanky, blond, Provo, Utah, native charged home uncontested in the last 75 yards to finish at 2:07.45, almost a full second under the old University mark. His time may well be the best in the country so far this season...
...refs did their best to control the war games, sending Harvard players to the foul line for 41 shots, but the Crimson converted on only 14 free throws...
What Harvard did best, however, was shoot. Accurately. Deadly. The team opened the second half by nailing its first nine field goal attempts, an assault that left the Crimson with a comfortable 1-point advantage...
JAPANESE politicking is usually a gentleman affair; the stately courtesy of exchange bows and fixed smiles maintains the fiction of political consensus and party unity. But Japanese politicians were not at their best last month. The nations's general elections exploded the myth of the political gentleman and pushed long-festering political hatreds into the open. Rivals slugged it out in an unprecedentedly public breakdown of party unity, leaving the government paralyzed and the nation disgusted with its leaders' antics...