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Harvard led for the last time when Beaulieu scored on a fingertip roll, for two of his game-high 30 points, and Hadley tallied a lay-up for a 65-63 lead. Then the defense went stale, passes went awry and the freshmen failed to conquer a fine Yale team...

Author: By Carl A. Esterhay, | Title: Elis Edge Cagers, 74-69, Beaulieu Leads With 30 | 2/12/1977 | See Source »

...wish to say to the people of good will, to the workers, to the poets, that the whole future has been expressed in this line by Rimbaud: only with a burning patience can we conquer the splendid City which will give light, justice, and dignity to all mankind...

Author: By Margaret A. Shapiro, | Title: The Song Was Not in Vain | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

...condescend to the music, they graciously allow rock audiences the chance to cheer for true genius. A concert sequence, where the debuting Barbra brings a hostile rocker audience to their feet with the wonder of her funkiness, is a milestone of piquant absurdity, equivalent, perhaps, to having Kate Smith conquer Woodstock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Barbra, a One-Woman Hippodrome | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...would like to attribute my defection to cross-country skiing to a Peter Principle lateral search for incompetence: that I had done everything one can do while wearing skis and was in search of new worlds to conquer. This, however, was not the case...

Author: By Grover G. Norquist, | Title: Why Ski Cross-Country? | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...Political Studies, believes the time is ripe "to assure that blacks have an equal chance to help shape the nation's policies and programs. A Cabinet post and a special assistant or two will not suffice. The need now is to integrate the policymaking process and to conquer yet another frontier of segregation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ELECTION: Jimmy's Debt to Blacks | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

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