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Word: caps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...celebrate about finally Making It Out of Massachusetts, and tip your cap to Eddie King, but you should also keep a close watch for Connecticut state troopers, who are likely to give you about as nice a reception as the state of California gave the medfly. If you're really unfortunate, and the Conn bears catch you doing more than 65 mph, your best bet is to be super polite. Otherwise, they're capable of taking away your license, and depending on the circumstances--such as the odor of your breath--throwing you into the pokey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Getting There | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

...down the grid iron. But the two Kirkland House residents will be retiring after Yale due to old age--they're seniors. In honor of that event, the House football referees gave Stearns and Reid each a penalty marker with his name on it and an officiating cap--total cost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Water Polo Players Pull Double Duty | 11/14/1981 | See Source »

After Sara graduated from New Canaan Country Day school in ninth grade, she enrolled in the Hotchkiss School in northwestern Connecticut and played varsity field hockey for three years. To cap off her high school career, she was elected captain her senior year...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: Sara LeBlond | 11/13/1981 | See Source »

...authorities were mystified about the voyage of La Nativité. Two of the survivors, all of whom were brought to Miami's Krome Ave nue North Detention Center, where 1,300 other Haitian refugees are being held, first claimed they had come via the Bahama Islands. They left Cap-Haïtien in northern Haiti on Aug. 26, they said, and spent the next 31 days sailing through the Bahamas; they subsisted by catching crabs to eat and licking the rainfall off leaves, until finally setting off Oct. 18 on the last leg of their journey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death in the Morning | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

Members of the School Committee and the school administration have warned that unless the city finds some way of overriding the spending cap imposed by Proposition 2 1/2, schools may not be able to open next September for lack of teachers. Cambridge mayor and school committee chairman Francis H. Duehay '55 says that the system will have to work with the state legislature to modify Prop. 2 1/2 and at the same time find other sources of revenue. Otherwise, the anticipated cuts might "destroy the school system," Duehay adds. Superintendent of schools William C. Lannon, has made much the same...

Author: By George P. Bayliss, | Title: Keeping Classrooms Functioning | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

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