Word: goals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With less than a minute remaining in regulation and the Harvard men's soccer team desperately pressuring the Amherst net for a tiebreaking goal, the Lord Jeffs' coach scampered frantically onto the field, shouting "Hey Ref, ref, the clock froze...
...booters rallied from a 1-0 halftime deficit after Amherst's purple-shirted sqad registered a sloppy goal early in the game before the Crimson got untracked. Aaron Brit crossed the ball to Robert Philbrick, who directed it into...
Protesters had come to Seabrook in years past--their goal to stop construction on the giant nuclear plant now one-fifth complete. Last May, the talk-is-cheap part of the anti-nuclear movement began planning a new tack in the fight. Instead of peaceful protests or acts of civil disobedience, they wanted "direct action." Cut down fences, occupy the plant, resist arrest, they said. That tactical change bred other shifts--in decision-making, in the attitude of the authorities, and the mood...
When the coalition lost sight of its collective goal, we lost our most powerful weapon--unity. When the goal ceased to be stopping Seabrook and instead became, as it did Monday, more random actions against the fence, we lost our power...
...strength of this weekend's action was the avoidance of violent response by the protesters. We were Maced, beaten, hosed and poked. Each time, we rallied and stood together. People calmed each other, holding those who were hysterical, treating those who were hurt. When our goal to shut down Seabrook appeared unattainable, we adopted a more realistic one--to occupy the storage lot, to cost the state of New Hampshire as much as we could, and to get as much publicity as possible. Just getting arrested hadn't worked. Three Mile Island hadn't made enough people think...