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...season, largely because of a superhuman effort from Mark Fusco. The sophomore played perhaps the best all-around game of his career...Brown's Darrell Petit, whose two-minute penalty at 6:35 of the first period is memorable because it contained three possible infractions, may be the dirtiest player in the ECAC. Incomprehensibly, Petit even complained to official Bill Quinn about the call...Crimson defenseman Alan Litchfield has become the team's hardest and most consistent checker. Litchfield played a solid game in every respect and is challenging Scott Sangster as the squad's best defensive defenseman. Brown...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: ...While Late Iceman Surge Fails Against Brown | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

...like a Southern populist, replied that many of the charges were false. Said he: "I have never voted for a statute that would call for forced busing. I have never been for gun control, and I helped beat registration of rifles and shotguns." He claimed that the campaign ("the dirtiest I've ever encountered") was the work of ghosts hovering behind the scenes. Said he: "The $600,000 raised by oil companies [for Fields] is being used to repeat absolute lies. They're not concerned with gun control and these other things. They're concerned about their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The House: Personalities on Stage | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...ruthless, wrathful, foreign, purely pagan people": so one medieval Irish text described the Vikings. "They are the dirtiest of God's creatures," sniffed Arab Historian Ibn Fadlan, who had seen and smelled a Viking encampment on the banks of the Volga in the 10th century, "and they do not wash themselves after sex." Thus, as Hilaire Belloc sardonically put it in our own century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Small Change of Archaeology | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

...dirtiest ever"campaign has not even started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Polemics and Poisonous Blossoms | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

Strauss, who heads the combined opposition of Christian Democrats and Christian Socialists, calls the campaign West Germany's "dirtiest ever." He has also taken the brunt of abuse, since his round face, bull neck and stocky shape delight cartoonists, and his flowery, right-wing rhetoric provides opponents with plenty of verbal ammunition. Strauss has long been a béte noire for many West Germans; his decision to seek the nation's most important political office has galvanized his enemies into a frenzy of mudslinging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Polemics and Poisonous Blossoms | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

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