Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Going into the final round the Crimson was still in command holding a 10-8 lead. But a Yale whitewash in saber turned the tide, and despite Simmons's third win of the day, and Hirschfeld's second, the handwriting was on the wall. The writing became even more legible when foiler Bennett was cut down by Ng. Major tied the match at 13 apiece, to set the stage for what one fencer termed "the best day in Danny Snyder's life." Snyder won the next bout 5-4 to give Yale the match...
Harvard was in command right from the start as the team of Malcolm Cooper (backstroke), Brent Haywood (breaststroke), Tim Neville (butterfly), and Kevin O'Connell (crawl) picked up seven points in the 400 medley relay with a time...
...sent home. "Callan," upon investigation, proved to be Costas Georgiou, 25, a Greek-Cypriot immigrant and former British paratrooper who had been cashiered from the service for robbing a post office. After being released from prison last year, Georgiou went to Angola, where he wound up in command of the F.N.L.A. mercenary forces...
...agostino was in command and had the lead in riding time, so all he had to do was hold on for a 7-6 win. His raging opponent escaped, though, and then charged in for a takedown that gave him the victory and his team an insurmountable 21-10 lead...
...with the Anatomy of Criticism, which outlined the science of literary criticism as a value-free system meant to classify all of the aspects of our own "verbal experience." Here was the boy-genius of sorts, with his shy smile and ingenuous delight n applause, who seemed to command all of Western literature and more. Here too was the wizened sage who not only possessed a comprehensive knowledge of literature, but brought it together in a perapatetic lecture-style, roaming up and down the superhighways and obscure paths of literary endeavors. His reliance on a notion of "some poets...