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Word: closers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe track team moved one step closer to attaining varsity status with a convincing win yesterday in a triangular meet against Somerville and Assumption high schools at the Stadium...

Author: By Andrew P. Quigley, | Title: Radcliffe Track Team Wins; Decius Garners Three Firsts | 5/2/1975 | See Source »

...really a lot closer match than the score shows," number four player Rita Funaro said last night. "We just didn't seem to have the winning drive that we needed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown Upsets Racquetwomen | 4/28/1975 | See Source »

...Crimson notmen moved two steps closer to a showdown with Princeton by ripping Cornell, 9-0, Friday and then Army, 7-2, Saturday on an important road trip...

Author: By James E. Mcgrath, | Title: Tennis Tops Big Red, Cadets; Will Contest Princeton for Title | 4/28/1975 | See Source »

Ghost Town. As the battle moved closer to Phnom-Penh, military police used rifle butts in a futile attempt to control the mobs of refugees flowing into the city. After a disaffected air force pilot bombed the military command headquarters (killing seven), a 24-hour curfew was imposed for one day while police went from house to house to search for infiltrators. Hospitals were crowded to two and three times their capacity. The small French community, anticipating the imminent arrival of the insurgents, began affixing the Tricolor to their houses; Paris had already recognized the Khmer Rouge. Meanwhile, the evacuated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: THE LAST DAYS OF PHNOM-PENH | 4/28/1975 | See Source »

...hunting. Says Vice Chairman Denis Detzel: "The calls are an excellent way of keeping track of what people are into." When former President Nixon went to China, for example, dozens of people called who wanted to learn Chinese. Lately there has been a great demand for courses closer to home: plumbing, carpentry and auto repairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Fair Exchange | 4/28/1975 | See Source »

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