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...could have insured a Crimson title. Brown's Scott Diehl and Andy New won the first set of their match, 6-1, but then choked on the next sets, losing, 6-4, 6-2, giving Yale the tie with Harvard. "They were terrible," Harvard's Sy Fountaine commented with disgust. "They won handily, then choked. They were nattering nabobs of nothingness...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: Elis Tie Netmen for Championship; Doubles Matches Crucial in N.E.'s | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

...British mandate, the Arab-Israel war, and the final re-establishment of Israel. She spent six months of research on the history of these bitter last 30 years but, as she later explained. "When I tried to write this as history, I could not do it. Anger, disgust, and a sense of injustice can make some write eloquent and evoke brilliant polemic, but the emotions stunted and twisted my pen." This lesson has remained with her throughout her work...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: In Search of History | 4/22/1983 | See Source »

...savings to further refine the cannon, yet still managed to turn back a surplus of $124 million that had been allocated for the GAU8 program. He is proud. Dilger's reward? No promotion. A new, unattractive desk job. In 1980, colleagues say, he quit the service in disgust. Today Bob Dilger, 49, raises corn and cattle on a farm outside Xenia, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cost Cutter | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

Despite occasional ones of disgust when they missed an easy point, the racquetmen took the match seriously...

Author: By Caren D. Williams, | Title: Racquetmen Muneh Engineers: Take Only an Hour to Win, 9-0 | 2/8/1983 | See Source »

...containing about 5,000 Scientology documents. The papers were placed under court protection by Gerry Armstrong, 36, who was authorized in January 1980 by Hubbard to gather papers for a laudatory biography. Armstrong found documents so damaging to the cult's credibility that he quit the church in disgust. He vows to use the papers to prove his charges, made in a sworn statement for a court case in Florida, that "Mr. Hubbard had continually misrepresented himself and had lied about his past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mystery of the Vanished Ruler | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

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