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Word: callings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teammates call him, faces the difficult task of being team leader for an individual sport, but he should fit well into the dual role. As number four man Mitch Reese observes, "Mike is the man for the job, because he is accomplished both as an individual and as a team leader. Just the dedication he puts in is a motivating example...

Author: By Tom Green, | Title: Ivy League Squash: Why Are the Tigers Winning? | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...Marie, clearing the way for downbound ore carriers and for empty ships upbound from the steel mills at Gary, Ind. Each winter the 290-ft. Mac makes "track" not only through the solid heavy ice but through once broken ice refrozen in crazy-quilt patches the Coast Guardsmen call "brash." Moving through brash, says Hall, "is like trying to punch yourself through a room full of marshmallows." The Mac copes differently with ice 2 ft. thick. The old cutter does not exactly knife through it. She just sort of squashes the stuff, bit by bit. As we hit a swath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Great Lakes: A Mackinaw Dance for U.S. Steel | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...between Marxist, Moscow-leaning South Yemen and moderate, pro-Saudi North Yemen. For the Saudis, the importance of the cease-fire was that it had been negotiated and resolved by the Arabs. The President's visit to Cairo and Jerusalem was only another chapter in what they sadly call Jimmy Carter's "hopeless Camp David mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Saudi Arabia: A Friendship Strained | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...Assembly anyway. Callaghan has the option of pulling a Parliamentary maneuver to try and scrap the 40 per cent stipulation and establish the Assembly on the basis of the 52 per cent of the turnout which supported the plan. The SNP has threatened to abandon Callaghan and call for a vote of no confidence in Parliament. Without the support of the SNP, Callaghan would almost certainly have to call new elections which, given the current state of the economy, could be disastrous...

Author: By Amy B. Mcintosh, | Title: Scot and Lot | 3/16/1979 | See Source »

...critical. His presence means one match is in the bag and, also, having a player of that caliber makes you feel a little more impregnable." Without Desaulniers, who was recently elected captain of next year's squad, the Quakers took the match and earned the right to call themselves number...

Author: By Tom Green, | Title: The Harvard Squash Team: Has the Dynasty Ended? | 3/16/1979 | See Source »

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