Word: halfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...score does not fully reflect Harvard's control of the meet, as the Crimson led, 39-4, at one point and opted not to run up the score by swimming its strongest lineup in the second half...
After taking the medley relay by half a pool length, the Crimson swept the first four individual events. It was not until the one-meter diving that Columbia recorded its first victory, when Lion springboard ace Mike Gurnee edged the Crimson's Steve Schramm...
...flanked by fences and farms, cannot remain a symbol of man's secure hold on his own turf. It seems instead an imposition, almost an irrelevance. As I passed the turnoff to Salt Lake other motorists evaporated. I was left all alone on a superhighway, seeing five cars in half an hour...
Being the product of a "mixed marriage," I caught John Harrell's comment that mixing races has caused half of the world's problems. Harrell and the members of his Christian-Patriots Defense League probably believe they represent the core of the American spirit, but they actually epitomize some of the worst features of Americans: bigotry, narrow-mindedness, paranoia and irrational fanaticism...
...point of the conflict remained the occupied American embassy in Tehran. Inside the compound, 600 members of the "Muslim Students of the Imam Khomeini Line" split the hostages into two groups. Half were in the ambassador's residence, half in two yellow bungalows near by. The treatment of the hostages was believed to have improved somewhat, though some of the men still had their hands tied. The women were guarded by chador-clad girls clutching automatic rifles. Early in the week the captors released a taped message from one of the Marine prisoners, Kevin Hermening, complaining that he didn...