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Word: bettering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prospects this season are no better. Most of the starting team has graduated. and Cornell has lost its only match of the season, 5-0, to Western Ontario...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Squash Team Encounters Cornell In First Ivy Contest Here Today | 12/6/1969 | See Source »

...stop motion pictures of the Deputy's death revives involuntary memories of the Zapruder film. The coincidence of alleged complicities recalls the farther shores of Jim Garrison's New Orleans fantasies. But essentially Z is grinding its ax not for politicians but for politics. Tyranny is always better organized than freedom; beneath the idea of order-in Eastern Europe, says the film, as well as in Greece-truly anarchic forces are loosed upon the world. The Greek letter Z is a symbol for "he still lives." In this case, Z refers to the murdered Deputy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Echo Chambers of Horror | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...course we're disappointed that we didn't win, but even a win wouldn't have proved who was the better team," said coach Ken Klug. "All it took was one break either...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: St. John's Courtmen Win; Varsity Vanquished, 72-63 | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

Rather than folding. Harvard played much better after the St. Louis score and dominated the game at the start of the second period. Seven minutes into the session. Solomon Gomez fired a perfect pass to sophomore Charlie Thomas on the left wing. Thomas blasted a hard shot into the far corner to even the match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: St. Louis Wins, 2-1, on Last Minute Goal | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

Still stuck in traffic, the denouement soon came. The girl who had remarked upon my glasses got out of a car and tore the second sticker off. As her car pulled alongside. a gray-haired man yelled "she was right and you better not try to do anything about it." Further dialogue ensued with this man. including a suggestion that I leave by helicopter and that five cars were going to follow me out of the parking...

Author: By Alfred LAWRENCE Toombs, | Title: YALE'S RUBBER CHICKEN | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

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