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Word: compton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Without hitting a ball out of the infield, M.I.T. jumped to an early lead with two runs in the third. Lead-off batter John Compton walked an advanced to second when pitcher Dave DeWitte lined a bunt past first baseman Pete Bernhard. After a wild pitch by Nickens put both runners in scoring position, Lee Bristol drove Compton home with a perfect squeeze-play bunt. While DeWitte broke for the plate, Minot Cleveland lain down a second perfect bunt to give the Techmen a 2-0 lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Starters Lead Nine To 7-4 Win Over M.I.T. | 4/23/1969 | See Source »

...Crimson heavies will face M.I.T. again in the Compton Cup next Friday, but much more important will be the race against Princeton, also in the Compton Cup race, who will be Harvard's toughest competitor to date...

Author: By Peter D. Lennon, | Title: Heavyweights Take Opening Race; Extend Win Streak to Thirty-three | 4/21/1969 | See Source »

...with the small Iver Johnson .22-cal. pistol. Sirhan said he could use it for hunting, adding: "It could kill a dog." Ballistics evidence revealed that the fatal shot was fired into Kennedy's head from a distance of approximately one inch. Later, one of the prosecutors, Lynn Compton, said that Sirhan had "stalked" Kennedy for days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Man Who Loved Kennedy | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...classic of criminal jurisprudence. Sirhan attracted three of the country's most successful lawyers: Los Angeles' Grant B. Cooper and Russell E. Parsons, New Yorker Emile Zola Berman (see box). The prosecution's three-man team is led by Chief Deputy District Attorney Lynn "Buck" Compton, former U.C.L.A. football star and World War II hero. Presiding is Superior Court Judge Herbert V. Walker, 69, who plans to retire in July. During the course of the first three days, the defense's tactics were clearly displayed. These were to lay groundwork for an eventual appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Behind Steel Doors | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...final Dartmouth tally came two plays after Harvard's Carl Compton had blocked a punt out of the end zone for a Crimson safety...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Frosh Humble Crimson | 10/26/1968 | See Source »

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