Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defeating Yale, 6-3, the Crimson racquetmen had presented him with a retirement gift upon which he really hadn't counted a few months ago--national intercollegiate title number 20 and Ivy League championship number 21. And the man who clinched the final title for Barnaby was someone upon whom nobody had counted just four days...
...cash prize of $10,000, which Galbraith promptly donated to the university's Fogg Museum, noting that "nothing so fittingly caps an unsuccessful academic career at Harvard as recognition, however belated, by the Lampoon." But the Poonies got the last jab when they rolled out an additional gift-a $13,000 purple and gold Cadillac specially fitted out for the author of The Affluent Society...
...lost 118 on a bum call," he said afterwards. "The Yale coach and I have never agreed on many things, but after the match even he came up to me and said that it was a gift...
Mean Streets first showed the conflict between Scorsese's natural gift for human observation and his attraction to social and psychological statements...
...Curtain, Christie (1 last week) 2-Ragtime, Doctorow (2) 3-The Choirboys, Wambaugh (3) 4-The Greek Treasure, Stone (4) 5-In the Beginning, Potok (5) 6-Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Rossner (8) 7-The Eagle Has Landed, Higgins (6) 8-Shogun, Clavell (10) 9-Humboldt's Gift, Bellow (7) 10-Nightwork, Shaw...