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...hosts' ability to convert 78.9 percent of their charity stripe attempts overcame their dismal 37.3 percent field goal shooting, and eventually allowed Penn to pass the Crimson for good with five minutes remaining in the contest...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Women Cagers Foul Out at Penn | 2/23/1985 | See Source »

...employees not to take abuse from anyone, they are subjected to a lot of it each shift. "They're really nice people," says Soroush R. Shehabi '87 of the countermen. "Snotty kids come in here when those guys are working hard. You can understand their response--they have a dismal life...

Author: By Theodore P. Friesd, | Title: The Allure of Cheesesteak and Abuse | 2/22/1985 | See Source »

Mentor to dozens of young and would-be food professionals, Beard was just right for the role of pioneering good, honest cooking when fanciness in the U.S. meant Fannie Farmer tearoom aberrations or their equally dismal counterparts, pseudo-Continental conceits. For Americans uninterested in food, he began the process of making its subtle pleasures accessible. For Americans overawed by Europe's haughty haute cuisine, he brought good news of the merits to be found in the U.S. culinary heritage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Grand Pooh-Bah of Food: James Beard: 1903-1985 | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

...LiberAls Suck" on a bench in staunchly Democratic Braintree, Massachusetts? What could it mean? Was it a Gary Hart-esque rail against the gloom-and-doom, tax-and-spend-failed policies of the Carter-Mondale administration? Was it a purely descriptive rather than expository comment, based on the dismal Electoral College performance of the Democrats? Or was Danny 84 actually a member of the party's agitprop crew, out publishing an argument so hopelessly nebulous and unremittingly vulgar that it would actually work to undermine the cause of conservatism in the Bay State...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Life on the Bench | 1/31/1985 | See Source »

...Crimson trailed by only 10 at the half (38-28) and remained very much in the game until a dismal five-minute stretch midway in the second hall when Harvard failed to score and committed costly fouls and turnovers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U Mass Pressure Beats Crimson; Crimson Drops Sixth Straight | 1/30/1985 | See Source »

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