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Word: courtly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...capture the second set 6-3, the pair traded six service breaks before the score reached 6-6 in the critical third set. Then, at 4-4 in the tie-breaker, Curley, unable to put away three previous match points, set a low backhand volley down the center of court which jammed Stone on his forehand side. The return landed a foot wide of the sideline on Curley's backhand side, and the Crimson had its fourth and in the end, decisive, singles victory...

Author: By Steven A. Herzenberg, | Title: Curley's Win in Tie Breaker Gives Netmen First '79 Win | 3/6/1979 | See Source »

...Saturday's quarterfinal match, the Crimson ace scored a victory over the number four seed, Craig Burbage, in tense 21-9 and 21-14 contests. The glass exhibit court was an unfamiliar setting for Acosta, and he adjusted well despite the problems with bounce and concentration lapses that these courts create...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Handball Ace Finishes Second, Receives All American Honors | 3/6/1979 | See Source »

Chung's bill, which came up before the joint Health Care Committee last week, seeks to codify the mature minor rule. The Supreme Judicial Court defined a mature minor as one who is capable of giving informed consent (to an operation or medication...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Student Seeks Medical Confidentiality for Minors | 3/6/1979 | See Source »

After some preliminary digging, Chung discovered a little-known ruling of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in the case of Baird versus Belotti in January 1977. The court ruled that, in all cases except abortion, a "mature minor" may receive confidential medical treatment where it is in his/her best interest not to notify the parents...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Student Seeks Medical Confidentiality for Minors | 3/6/1979 | See Source »

...other three actresses, Ravenal, Maggie-Meg Reed and Caroline Rody, all act competently, though without the near complete control over their characters that Woods manages. Ravenal, as Erica, the neurotic, college-boy-chasing, self-appointed court jester neatly portrays some of the ambiguities facing the nubile but nervous seventeen-year-old. But she skirts triteness when she sings a eulogy for her dead grandmother in one of the two "heavy" songs of the act. Reed, as Marion the sex-starved, and Rody, as Laura the oh-so-cute, faithfully depict their personality types' stereotypical reactions to predictable situations. However, they...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Out of the Mouths of Babes | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

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