Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson squad was riding a ten-game winning streak into the Quaker match. The streak was rudely broken by the Penn team. Harvard lost 2-0. and with their momentum lost, they finished the season in fourth place. This year, the Crimson may be carrying an even heavier psychological burden because of its shutout record of six. Munro is worried about the effect that an early Quaker goal could have on his team's morale...
...truly a stalemate but a competition. To curb that competition and to establish an agreed-upon balance of destructive power have long been elusive hopes. In his Inaugural Address in January, the President declared: "With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms." For a long time, it seemed, the right people were not willing. After confidently predicting that U.S.-Soviet talks to limit arms would begin in August, the Administration heard mostly a series of hints, evasions and half-promises from Moscow. Finally, last week, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin paid a secret...
...Synods should never be a way of 'getting the Pope,' " said John Cardinal Wright, former Bishop of Pittsburgh and now head of the Vatican's Congregation of the Clergy. He warned that yearly synods could become a prime example of Parkinson's Law and a burden...
...have to adjust to for the remainder of the fall. But the lack of imagination has bothered Harvard's offense all fall, and unless coach John Yovicsin allows his quarterbacks to open up the Crimson attack, there is little chance that the offense will carry its share of the burden...
...head and hands of the wearer and sells for $9 to $14. "Covers" is an exaggeration, as the ads make clear: "No interruptions to mar the lovely line of you," and "Reveals what it covers." The obvious suggestion is that the wearer need not, indeed should not burden her body with such conventional and "confining" undergarments as brassieres, girdles, panties and hosiery...