Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second half was more of the same. Harvard was unable to apply consistent pressure on the Wesleyan defense, and when it got the ball deep it didn't seem to know what to do with it. The Cardinals were content to take any offensive opportunities they could get, but they hustled back and massed on defense when Harvard got the ball...
East Germany is probably the most subservient of Russia's European satellites; it supplies the Soviet Union with 15.3% of all its imports, a fantastic figure considering the disparity in size between the two countries. Nonetheless, the U.S.S.R. bans certain East German magazines -not because of their ideological content but because of pictures showing how well the German comrades live...
Affluence will also increase land demand for airports, marinas, ski lodges and especially vacation and retirement homes. Apartment dwellers no longer are content with a rented room by the seashore on their holidays; more and more yearn for their own cabin on Mosquito Lake. Older people who once took it for granted that they would move in with reluctant sons and daughters after retirement now count on relaxing in some sunny clime on the beaches and golf courses of Senior Citizen Acres. "Even if we attain zero population growth, we will continue to spread out across our open land like...
Chauncey said yesterday that an increased number of complaints about the content of the band's halftime performances had prompted the action...
...ground-up newspapers to filter water containing algae, Richard Spray, Neil Meador and Donald Brooker found that the newsprint effectively trapped the single-celled plants, which are rich in protein. After a while, such a thick layer of algae built up on the newsprint that it had a higher content of crude protein than dried beef, soybean meal or skimmed-milk powder. Though the Missouri scientists do not suggest that their old-newsprint disposal scheme could ever fill human food needs, it could provide a useful high-protein feed for livestock. In fact, some University of Missouri cows are already...