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That didn't matter, however, because freshman forward Wendy Joseph's bucket and Long's layup underneath the basket all but sealed the lid on Harvard's first victory of the 1981-82 campaign...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, | Title: Women Hoopsters Bounce Penn, 57-55; Long Paces Crimson to First Victory | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

Bleeding dramatically from a cut beneath his right eye for most of the second half, Edwards managed to muscle seven of 13 field goal attempts into the bucket for a total of 14 points...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Crimson Takes Ivy Opener; Feisty Dartmouth Falls, 80-64 | 12/3/1981 | See Source »

...first package, carefully encased in plastic, was found outside Britain's Chemical Defense Establishment at Porton Down in Wiltshire. Inside was a galvanized metal bucket containing nothing, it seemed at first, but earth. A few days later, a second package turned up in Blackpool, where the ruling Conservative Party was holding its annual conference. It too contained a bucketful of earth wrapped in plastic, and apparently nothing else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biological Warfare: Dark Harvest | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...months, she often was gang-raped 30 times a day. She was kept in a dark locker where the temperature hovered around 100° F and fed a subsistence diet of rice and water. When Thuy passed out, she would be roused by being drenched with a bucket of salt water and then raped again. Her kidnaped companion was treated the same way and then thrown overboard. Thuy was bartered, along with baskets of fish, to 14 other boats, where her ordeal continued. When the last pirates set her ashore, Thai authorities jailed her as an illegal immigrant. Two weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand: Piratical Murders and Rape at Sea | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...city council is now waking up to the fact that a few concessions by Harvard and other schools represent only a drop in the bucket of the property tax funds Cambridge loses every year through the non-profit exemption...

Author: By Andre C. Karp, | Title: Deciding the City's Foreign Policy And Other Weighty Matters | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

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