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...flier distributed last week, the League alleged that Yun was participating in a demonstration outside the building, and that she had provoked and assaulted Manning...

Author: By Jonathan Shayne, | Title: Spartacist Trial | 12/5/1981 | See Source »

...again after my first sober afternoon. If so, I presume I owe you flowers." As he ruefully described the times he was "d.d." (disgustingly drunk) in his letters, Waugh made himself one of his better comic characters: "I got to my train d.d. and it was the Cheltenham Flier full of respectable stockbrokers . . . and I walked down the train picking up all the mens hats and looking inside and saying: 'People who go to such bad hatters shouldn't travel first class.' So I am ashamed to meet any neighbors now." Waugh's journeys from offensiveness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beneath the Thorny Carapace | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

COLLEGE PARK, Md.--Playing in conditions satisfactory only to a masochistic kite flier, the Harvard tennis team battled a feisty University of Maryland team and crosswinds gusting to more than 40 miles per hour here yesterday and emerged with a hard-fought, 5-4 victory...

Author: By John Donley, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Racquetmen Edge Terps, 5-4, Despite 40-Plus MPH Gusts | 4/7/1979 | See Source »

...their canvassing drive SASC members will hand out their flier "Harvard and South Africa" and take a "low-key" approach in clearing up any misunderstandings students may have and in encouraging them to sign the petitions, Molyneux said...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: SASC--Circulates Divestiture Petitions | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

...extension." A major attraction of kiting is that it is a peaceful pastime in which competition evokes more ahs than urrghs. It can also be one of the least expensive of sports. The traditional two-stick diamond costs only about 500; its major maker, the 56-year-old Hi-Flier Manufacturing Co. in Decatur, Ill., sells millions of them yearly. An exotic 45-ft. dragon made of Mylar costs only about $8, while a large tetrahedral model sells for $20. (On the other hand, fancier, higher-flying kites can cost up to $2,000.) A 500-ft.-long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Kites Are Flying Sky High | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

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