Word: ely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...highly-touted Eli boat finished third, a length astern of Wisconsin. "We wanted it so badly. It was just a matter of going out there and doing it," coxswain Nancy Hadley said after the race...
Early one morning last February, Eli M. Black, 53-year-old chairman of United Brands Co., plunged to his death from his 44th-floor Manhattan office. Early last week General Oswaldo López Arellano, 53-year-old Honduran chief of state, was overthrown in a bloodless coup. The link between the two men was an alleged $1.25 million bribe that is now being investigated by both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a Honduran commission...
...other races, the Harvard freshmen triumphed over their Eli and Tiger counterparts, although Princeton did come on in the last part of that race to push the Crimson Yardlings. Harvard goes into next week's Sprints undefeated...
Early one morning last February, Eli M. Black, 53-year-old chairman of United Brands Co., created a major mystery by smashing a quarter-inch-thick glass window in his Manhattan office and plunging through it to his death on the pavement 44 floors below. Black's relatives said that they knew of nothing that might have driven the executive, who was a descendant of ten generations of rabbis and a former rabbi himself, to take his life. Business associates also were puzzled-though they noted that his company, a gangling conglomerate, had lost $46.8 million...
...singles matches and the five doubles matches played, the only Eli victory came in the number two doubles match...