Word: elder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seventeen seconds after Paul Sawyer had gone off the ice for tripping, the Harvard powerplay got the one it didn't get at Yale, as the elder Hughes scored after saves on Jackie and McDonald...
...exposure of his Olympic triumphs on TV proved to be more valuable to the elder Spinks than a good left hook. He got an early discharge from the Marines, moved to Philadelphia with his wife Nova and his stepdaughter, and quickly turned pro after signing up with Boxing Promoter Bob Arum. Hungering for fresh fighters, CBS aired six of his first seven bouts...
...would have thought that Rodrigues would have come up with a 30-save performance after he was beaten on the first shot of the game? Bobby McDonald rode the opening face-off in, hit transplanted center George Hughes on the left, and the elder Hughes easily golfed it by the freshman to give Harvard its only lead with only eight seconds gone in the contest...
...went so far. A conservative minority, consisting of Lovelace and two other theologians, an expert in ethics and a local pastor, filed a 19-page report. It urges the forthcoming General Assembly to interpret the church constitution as banning practicing homosexuals from the clergy and the lay offices of elder and deacon, though accepting homosexuals who remain celibate...
...suspect him. Ever since the two were eight-year-old schoolboys, Chamorro and Somoza had been enemies. In those days, Somoza told TIME last week, they fought because Chamorro's family paper "kept attacking my dad, and I couldn't stand for that." Dad was Anastasio the elder, who took over the country in 1936. After his assassination in 1956, his son Luis became Jefe, and after Luis' death in 1967, Tacho succeeded him. Those childish schoolyard battles were merely the start of Chamorro's lifelong crusade to unseat the dynasty he would one day describe...