Word: clashed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After cranking out more than 13 goals a game last Spring, the Harvard offense was clearly not clicking, so Crimson coach Bob Scalise prepared for the clash with Penn by shuffling his inexperienced midfields and moving Predun to attack, where he could play full-time and make the best of his flashy one-on-one moves. Gordie Nelson moved to a midfield slot...
...this point, while the reverberations of the clash that accompanied the show's Broadway opening are still sifting across the country, there is very little the entrepreneurs need do to sustain ticket sales. The memory of the ruckus--along with a four-letter word beginning with "n"--is all it takes. Beyond that, not many people who'd been clattering about the show before it opened Wednesday knew much about it. Not even the city councilors, who wanted to go on record as having opposed the granting of a license, had much idea what they were trying to ban. Mavor...
...landless peasantry; and overnight, 8000 farm families moved into the land. Landowners and the industrial elites all over the country resisted by closing down shops and factories for 24 hours across the nation. On the eve of a second 'invasion' Echeverria balked: the threat of a bloody clash was too real and there were new rumors of a coup, this time against...
Somoza has accomplished that. Last November, in a clash with National Guard troops, the Sandinistas' secretary-general, Carlos Fonseca Amador, 40, was killed en route to a meeting, laid out under a mango tree and photographed; his fingertips were then sliced off for exact identification. Other ranking leaders of the leftist rebel movement have also been killed. Last month, in an unpublicized trial in Managua, 36 captured guerrillas and 74 of their compatriots who were tried in absentia drew sentences ranging from 18 months to 129 years in prison...
...meet with Henry Kissinger last year, but promised Young his support "in his great task of bridging the wide gulf between the U.S. and Africa." Explaining the Nigerians' warmth toward him, Young said with a grin: "Nigeria is arrogant and Kissinger is arrogant, and so there was a clash. I may be just as arrogant, but I can control it better." Later he added, "They're anxious for a new start, and that's what I'm looking...