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Word: contests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even after Mogollan, Keller-Sarmiento and Alberto Villar entered the contest, Harvard still couldn't make the precision passes or find the timing needed to threaten Penn goalie Jim Tabak...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Booters Battle Penn to Scoreless Tie | 11/13/1979 | See Source »

...WORST, political campaigns are not unlike trashy novels. In large measure they consist of contrived drama, timely coincidence, tawdry innuendo and caricatured protagonists indulging in fantastical posturing. They are memorable mainly for the deja vu they inspire. And they are getting longer and longer. And longer. If a presidential contest were a book, it would be thousands of pages long...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Never the Twain Shall Meet | 11/13/1979 | See Source »

Nonetheless, the system does exist to solve problems, and it is the only system by which the nation's problems will be solved. That makes campaign '80 a contest of true importance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: May the Best Man Win | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

Mather's defense, particularly the pass rush, did the job for the rest of the contest...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Eliot, Mather Yale-Bound | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

...State Senator Joseph F. Timilty is trying for the third time to unseat him. Timilty nearly beat White in the 1975 election following the height of the Boston busing crisis, Watergate, and a series of attacks on the ethics of the White administration. The outcome of tomorrow's contest hinges on Timilty as the alternative candidate and on the changing nature of the city's population...

Author: By Dewitt C. Jones iv and Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, S | Title: The Road Ahead | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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