Word: grips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NOTEBOOK: Vermont's 3-1 upset of Clarkson Saturday lightened Harvard's grip on second place in the ECAC At 10-4, Clarkson is not a game and a half back of the Crimson, with seven games remaining on the schedule....A solid check into the boards knocked a plexiglass pane into the crowd at 15:49 of the second period. Referce Richard Burrell decided to take the second intermission while the glass was reinstalled....B.U. Coach Jack Parker calls the Harvard team he'll face in lonight's Beanpot opener "obviously one of the best teams in the nation...
...Individual athletes associate with the coach, and some coaches don't get a grip on where eating disorders come from," says Costin, who sees bulemia and other eating disorders as part of a larger Harvard problem...
...guitar work, as ever, sounds like short circuits in an electric chair. Word of Mouth also tackles such subjects as gossip, unemployment, sudden death and the decline of the British Empire. The boys may reach a little wide and wild, but when they finally get hold of something, their grip is still sure and distinctive, like being strangled with one hand and tickled with the other...
...fashioned expendable variety, with smooth sides and no handles. The stinger, measuring 64 in. and consisting of a pole mounted on a round base, solved the problem neatly. It would inject an expanding prong into the satellite's rear motor, locking on to it and providing a grip for the wrangler-astronauts. As Allen explained, "It's like opening an umbrella inside a chimney." In practice sessions Allen could not reach the handle to "open" the umbrella. Another redesign was needed. It was now August...
...doyen of professional translators, Ralph Manheim, 77, has lived in Paris for 34 years, secure in his grip on the English language, working with equal fluency from the French and the German. In the tiny maid's room that serves as his office, near the Luxembourg Gardens, Manheim has produced inventive English versions of some of Europe's most difficult writers, including Louis-Ferdinand Celine and Günter Grass. Manheim's most recent endeavor: a canny rendering of The Weight of the World, an elliptical memoir by Austrian Playwright Peter Handke...