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...heart stopper in the final period, as Harvard scored three goals and came a whisker away from a fourth in the last minute. Following Mike Eruzione's tally that proved to be the game winner at 8:32, Levy Byrd discovered a chink in Walsh's armor. His weak shot dribbled between the Terrier goaltender's legs and the crowd and the team came alive...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: B.U.'s First Period Barrage Sinks Harvard, 6-5 | 12/13/1973 | See Source »

Boston State scored its second and final point when Gerry Austin, assisted by Don Pacific, spotted a chink in Petrovek's armor and slapped in a shot...

Author: By Randy K. Mays, | Title: Yardlings Wallop Boston State As Horton, Bell Tally Twice | 11/30/1973 | See Source »

...Nader report pries at every chink in the uses of the Du Fonts' corporate and family power. Among the Raiders' charges-and Du Font's rebuttals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Elephant and the Chickens | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

President Nixon's opening to the East is about to create a booming market in Washington for China experts. Universities expect a surge of enrollment in courses that already bear such campus nicknames as "Chink Think" (Chinese philosophy, at Yale), "Rice Paddies" (introduction to China and Japan, at Harvard) and "What's My Line?" (China's evolution under Communism, at the University of Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The China Scholars | 8/9/1971 | See Source »

...California court upheld his right to seek damages from a lower court on that basis. Wrote Justice Louis Burke: "Al though the slang epithet 'nigger' may once have been in common usage, along with such other racial characterizations as 'wop,' 'chink,' 'jap,' 'bohunk' or 'shanty Irish,' the former expression has be come particularly abusive and insulting in light of recent developments in the civ il rights movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Price of Prejudice | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

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