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Word: eagers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neither team dominated play in the first half. Harvard's top scorer Sue St. Louis mounted several drives into the Yale zone. The diesel-powered St. Louis amassed 19 goals and five assists on the season, but couldn't find daylight amidst the maze of eager Elis...

Author: By Tom Green, | Title: Harvard Deals Eli Soccer Squads Double Defeat | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

Despite the ambiguous status of the assistant professor at Harvard, most candidates are eager to accept a position here. "Harvard is an incredibly attractive environment, offering a superior library, intellectual climate and students," one junior faculty member in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature says. Harvard junior faculty members receive a fairly light teaching load, a sabbatical to do research for a year at half salary or six months with full pay, and an opportunity to exploit the University's astounding research resources. In theory, then, most junior faculty should be able to view their years at Harvard...

Author: By Susand D. Chira, | Title: Standing Room Only | 11/16/1978 | See Source »

...Crimson opened the scoring after three minutes of play. Freshman right-wing Cat Ferrante raced down the sideline, turned the corner, and booted a cross-pass into Brown's penalty area. The eager Brynteson snatched Ferrante's pass and sent a hard shot over the head of Bruin netminder Stefi Sanders for goal number...

Author: By Thomas H. Green iii, | Title: Women Booters Zap Brown for Ivy League Title | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...dispute Goldwater's claim that two-thirds of the Senate must approve cancellation of the treaty, but they say they have every intention of consulting with Congress before they make any major steps on China. And they do want to press ahead. Presidential National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski is eager to play what he has called the "China card" in the ongoing poker game of U.S. -Soviet relations (Moscow has already roared in protest against both the term and the concept). But Brzezinski and other policymakers realize that whenever they play the card, they are going to have trouble with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Playing the China Card | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

According to Zambian planners, the economic failure should not have occurred. As it happened, the Chinese, eager for an African foothold, had already granted a $460 million interest-free loan to Zambia and neighboring Tanzania to finance a new 1,160-mile rail link running northeast from Zambia's copper mines to Tanzania's Indian Ocean port of Dar es Salaam. The project, built by 51,000 Chinese and African laborers, was first called the Great Uhuru (Swahili for freedom) Railway, renamed Tazara (for Tanzania-Zambia Railway) and was completed in 1976. Tazara should have provided Zambia with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZAMBIA: The Great Railway Disaster | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

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