Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Halberstam writes, "through a world war and a Great Depression, the White House had employed only one person to handle the incoming mail. Herbert Hoover had received, for example, some 40 letters a day. After Franklin Roosevelt arrived and began to make his radio speeches, the average was closer to 4,000 letters a day." After F.D.R. and radio found each other, the faster news was reported the faster it began to occur...
...unseeded Crimson doubles pair of Libby Pierpont and Sally Roberts sparkled en route to a semi-final confrontation with top-seeded Tiger duo, Kris Kinney and Anne Renfrew. In what Crimson coach Peter Felske described as a closer match than the score indicates, Roberts and Pierpont succumbed...
...hard to say how long it might have taken for an Afro-American Studies Department to be approved by the Faculty, had the events of that week in April not shocked the Faculty into closer attention to student demands...
What has happened in the intervening years is that the Met's budgetary troubles have forced a reevaluation of the national tour. It might once have been a luxury that helped bring the Met closer to the national audiences gathered around radios every Saturday afternoon to hear opera broadcasts; it has become--along with the opera blitz on public television--a critical part of the Met's campaign to raise money across the country...
...lacrosse team--Harvard (check Tuesday's Globe if you don't believe me)--beat its opponent into the ground for the seventh time in its latest seven outings. The victim was a surprisingly tough UNH squad, and the score was a misleading 11-6--misleading because it was closer than that...