Word: forwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard women's junior varsity basketball team closed out its season last night on a winning note, with a 55-24 shellacking of the Tufts J.V. Freshman forward Chris Hart led the way for Harvard with 25 points. The Harvard J.V.s ended with a 5-4 record for the season...
According to Haldeman, the reaction was galvanic. "Turmoil in the room, Helms gripping the arms of his chair, leaning forward and shouting, 'The Bay of Pigs had nothing to do with this. I have no concern about the Bay of Pigs.' " Recalls Haldeman: "I was absolutely shocked by Helms' violent reaction. Again I wondered, what was such dynamite in the Bay of Pigs story?" In fact, the CIA officials then did ask Acting FBI Director Pat Gray to slow the money tracing-and he did for a week...
...said, and changed his life forever. When the Army tried to draft Ali, he appealed, claiming that, as a Black Muslim, he was a conscientious objector: Ali managed to squeeze in a few fights, mostly in Europe, before the date he was supposed to take the fateful step forward to induction. Ironically, the man who read so haltingly that he was once declared below Army standards was also invited to lecture on campuses by students who were sitting out the war behind a book. Ali became the symbol of opposition to the war at a time when Lyndon Johnson still...
...April 1967, Ali had exhausted all of his appeals. At the Houston Induction Center, he refused orders to step forward to join the Army. Within minutes the New York State Athletic Commission rescinded his boxing license; it took the World Boxing Association four hours to do its patriotic duty and take away his title. The State Department confiscated his passport so that he could not travel to nations willing to sanction his fighting. For his stand, Ali was convicted of draft evasion and given a five-year prison sentence. He started the lengthy process of appeal, and discovered that...
Ironically, it was the Yale power-play that dealt the conquering blow, when forward Anders Carlsson tallied at 1:31 of the final period to untie the 2-2 score permanently...