Word: clashed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Children of God, as they had come to call themselves. In return, Jordan displayed the youngsters, most of them in their late teens and 20s, in his televised fund-raising pitches. The arrangement lasted about a year and a half. An argument over the properties precipitated a clash, and Jordan ordered the Children off his land last September...
Freely and Feebly. The other play-off clash, between the hard-nosed defenses of Dallas and San Francisco, was, as 49er Defensive Tackle Earl Edwards had predicted, "an alley fight." Another 49er, noting Staubach's penchant for running with the ball when his receivers are covered, warned that "a quarterback who plays that way can get his neck broken." As it happened, nothing was broken except the 49ers' spirit. Staubach romped freely while veteran San Francisco Quarterback John Brodie passed feebly. Brodie had three passes intercepted, Staubach none; he was the Cowboys' leading ground gainer to boot...
...When the clash of the muscular giants was over, the biggest star of the weekend was the littlest player, 5 ft. 7 in., 160 lb. Garo Yepremian of the Miami Dolphins. More unlikely still, he is a left-footed, soccer-style placekicker from Cyprus who never even saw a pro football game until he was 22. Now 27, Yepremian felt more than the usual sense of rivalry going into the Kansas City game. Though he led the league in scoring with 117 points, he was bypassed for the A.F.C.'s all-pro team in favor of Kansas City Kicker...
...Princeton and Penn are the heavy favorites, Harvard and Dartmouth are genuine challengers, and when the four clash in contests at Philadelphia and Princeton this weekend, the Ivy title race will be halfway settled...
...Which of the two events should be more alarming-a clash between two armies resulting in a few hundred deaths, or the systematic killing of a million innocent people? If world leaders were more pragmatic, the double tragedy could have been avoided long...