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...bellicose Rams from the University of Rhode Island battered the Crimson women thinclads' exposed weal flank in the sprints and field events Saturday, to give Harvard its first dual meet defeat of the season...

Author: By Jack A. Laschever, | Title: Rams Blast Women Thinclads; Gopaul Posts Sub-Minute 440 | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

Already the flames of anti-Western fanaticism that Khomeini fanned in Iran threaten to spread through the volatile crescent of crisis that stretches across the southern flank of the Soviet Union, from the Indian subcontinent to Turkey and southward through the Arabian Peninsula to the Horn of Africa. Most, particularly, the revolution that turned Iran into an Islamic republic whose supreme law is the Koran is undermining the stability of the Middle East, a region that supplies more than half of the Western world's imported oil, a region that stands at the strategic crossroads of superpower competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: The Mystic Who Lit The Fires of Hatred | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

...Raphaelite painting that now fetches $100,000. The $30,000 Tiffany lamp was not worth $3,000, and so on. One is left with the impression-indeed it is cultivated assiduously by the largest gaggle of public relations people ever to batten on the flank of culture-that art prices can only go up; the market has transcended its old uncertainty, whether the objects are million-dollar Titians or ten-buck trash "collectibles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Confusing Art with Bullion | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Sophomore co-captain Reed joins Fischer and freshman Vicki Palmer on a line, and Barb Coffin (0-0-0) and newcomer Rosemary Mahoney flank (yet another) freshman, Amy Spalding, to form the third line...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Fischer, Reed Lead Young Icewomen | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

...Taunton Sport Parachuting Center would be a complex--hangars, training and meeting rooms, a cafeteria, office and parachute lofts. It would be the pride of Taunton, I imagined. It would grace the flank of their small municipal airport, attracting small town heroes, coquettes, and gawkers. It would be the center stage for a boy's dive into manhood...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Stepping Out Over Taunton | 11/14/1979 | See Source »

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