Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wyoming rewarded old favorites, giving both Nixon and GOP Senator Cliff Hansen large majorities...
...cliff-hanger win over the Lions in the jungles of New York's West Side did not come without a prior. Harvard and Columbia smashed hands for four solid quarters, and, when the dust had settled, Restic's troops were a pretty banged-up lot. No less than 14 Harvard squad members came up with Jumps and bruises in the brawl and reported for treatment on Sunday. Most of the injured will miss some action in this week's practice preparation for the Cornell invasion this weekend, but isn't yet known how many will miss the Big Red contest...
Default. That was not the first time Nastase has annoyed his fellow touring pros. In Paris last December he used similar antics to needle Cliff Richey into flubbing a match. A month later Nastase ran into an American with a temperament equal to his own: Clark Graebner. The two traded insults; suddenly, Graebner leaped over the net and grabbed Nastase. Order was restored and the set completed, but the rattled Rumanian then walked off the court and defaulted the match...
...seeded John Newcombe of Australia in the first round, scoring the final point in a tense tie breaker with typically audacious anticipation of a cross-court drive. "Fortune favors daring," Lutz later explained. Lutz's other victims, in order, were New Zealander Brian Fairlie, Aussie Laver, South African Cliff Drysdale and Dutchman Tom Okker. Okker was out-hustled in the final by Lutz, who earned $10,000 for his 6-4, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 triumph...
...become unstoppable. With a strategy built around deadly backhand volleys, Lutz polished off Cliff Drysdale in the semifinals, then overpowered Tom Okker, the fastest man on the circuit, in a four-set final...