Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That military machine faces an enduring dilemma: it has to be strong enough for the defense of Central Europe, but never so strong as to provoke the Soviet Union's obsessive fear of a renascent, militaristic West Germany. "We must be cautious," says Defense Minister Hans Apel. "Neither in Eastern nor Western Europe can we create the impression that we are longing for a special military position. On the other hand...
Schmidt originally planned to be an architect. Instead, in 1937 at the age of 18, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and served with an antiaircraft unit that fought on both the Eastern and Western fronts. After being commissioned a first lieutenant, he was captured at the Battle of the Bulge and held as a prisoner of war for six months in Belgium. Earlier, he had joined the Hitler Youth, as did every other boy in his school. His submissive stance is said to have privately troubled Schmidt in later years. Returning after the war to the devastation of Hamburg...
...Crimson had a shot at catching eventual Eastern League winner Navy, from whom the batsmen swept a doubleheader in early April. But the loss to Cornell, on the last weekend of the season, dropped Harvard's league record to 9-5 and prevented the Crimson from playing in the NCAA playoffs...
...Navy torpedoes the Harvard men's tennis team, 5-4, all but shattering the Crimson's shot at the Eastern League title...
...laxmen went on to lose to UMass, spoiling their bid for the New England Championship. A tough pair of early season losses to Eastern lacrosse powers Cornell and Johns Hopkins dampened the Crimson's NCAA aspirations before Harvard ever really got rolling...