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Word: hitches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson defense which egged on by some harsh criticism from the Penn coaching staff, played a superlative game against the Quakers was the hardest hit by the bumps and brushes Penn was handing out. Both captain hitch Scott and Brain Fearnett have sore knees, and Fearnett's ankle and Scott's shin are giving the defensive stars some pain...

Author: By Charles B. Straut, | Title: Hobbled Booters Host Jumbos Today | 11/8/1972 | See Source »

...majority leader since 1971, he was next in line to become House Speaker, and was one of three top leaders in the House (with Speaker Carl Albert and Minority Leader Gerald Ford). First elected to Congress in 1940, Boggs-after a defeat at the polls and a four-year hitch in the Navy-returned in 1946, and has been there since. Representing an urban and cosmopolitan section of New Orleans, he was not the stereotypical Southern Congressman. Though he joined other Southerners in signing a 1956 manifesto opposing school integration, he dramatically came out in favor of the 1965 Voting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Lost Horizon | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

Most of the team will have to hitch like to West Point and stay at Vassar, due to the fact that water polo, a club sport, is not funded by the Athletic Department. This will not help the team either, Graff pointed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Water Poloists Head to Army | 10/20/1972 | See Source »

...Brown course has three loops with a little quarter mile hitch at the end. Jones, Durrette. Campbell and Keefe for Harvard and Thomas for Brown were the early leaders in the race for the first loop and a half, with Rojas running behind. "I was running kind of slow to loosen up," he said. "We had a rough week of practice...

Author: By E.j. Dionne, | Title: Harriers Smash Hapless Brown, 15-48 | 10/14/1972 | See Source »

...left-handed to righthanded molecules in a common amino acid called isoleucine, and he was able to estimate the age of fossils from that ratio. What is more, his tests required only a tiny sampling of material and could be completed in a few hours. There is one serious hitch, he reports in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Because the rate at which amino acids change their configuration varies significantly with heat, the temperature history of the specimen must be taken into account. Still, if an object has been sheltered in a cave or buried in the ocean floor, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A New Clock | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

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