Word: flings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second foul shot saw Silver fling the ball against the backboard in the hope that a Harvard player might recover the rebound for a basket. The ball dropped into the basket and doomed Harvard's try. Wolfe led Harvard with 16 points, Jenkins tallied 15 and Arnie Needleman chipped in with...
...seem to have been raised, not lowered; customers peel off their jackets, and even the bikini-clad B-girls perspire in the heat. At a restaurant on the Ginza, the headwaiter reports a more-frenzied-than-usual pace of drinking. "They drink as though this were their last big fling," he says, both gratified and concerned by the booming sales...
...London newspaper described it as "a mad final fling before the winter of our discontent." For one brief shining moment last week, Britain forgot its economic troubles and basked in the splendid and stirring pageantry of a royal wedding. Before 1,500 invited guests and a television audience of 500 million people round the world, Princess Anne, 23, Queen Elizabeth's only daughter, married her commoner cavalryman, Captain Mark Phillips, 25, in the Gothic splendor of Westminster Abbey...
Last week, the State Department announced that Secretary Henry A. Kissinger '50, was forced to postpone this year's fling to the People's Republic of China because of pressing needs for his expertise in resolving the Mideast war and, by corollary, preserving the U.S.-Soviet detente...
...will be a while before Myra Mayman can safely "fling" herself into her present job even though people expect action from her immediately. She says that she does not want to be badgered into purely administrative work, but as yet she has seen few of the undergraduates who are supposed to be her primary concern. She cannot avoid the controversial debate that has surrounded the role of the arts at Harvard for decades. And in order to sort out all of its intricacies, Mayman will undoubtedly have to draw on her varied experience as well as on her enthusiasm...