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...spite of the early onslaught, Tufts didn't cave in. With the help of a few errors and poor pitching control. Tufts eked its way back to knot the score at 11-all by the top of the fourth...

Author: By Peter G. Wilcox, | Title: Women's Softball Crushes Tufts, 25-12 | 4/24/1981 | See Source »

...United States Steel was an incredible amalgam of 148 companies that dwarfed runners-up. Washington's vigorous trustbusters lashed out against a variety of anticompetitive practices: Hollywood studios' control of movie theaters, Eastman Kodak's grip on film processing and United Shoe Machinery's knot on shoe manufacturing equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Little Stick of Antitrust | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

...boost of all may be the Love Boat connection. In a bizarre show of life panting after artifice, passengers scramble aboard the cruise ships with expectations that their hours aboard will replicate the determinedly fatuous ABC-TV series, in which two or three romances seem to occur per nautical knot and (old tars squirm again) Hollywood pretty-kins impersonate the ship's crew. The emcees sprinkle their repartee with Love Boat jokes ("The captain can marry you on board. Every marriage is good for four days"). The Los Angeles-based Princess ships, on which Love Boat sequences are filmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Love Boats Rule the Waves | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...weekly called Idle Hours. He cleaved to his fiction bottle and dreams of success. "On my weekly payday, having written five reviews and collected thirty dollars," he writes, "I'd shine my rotting shoes, press my crotchstinking, shinyassed pants, trim the fray from shirt and jacket, knot up my best greasy tie, pour down a tall wine or two for ballast, then subway uptown to The Forum of the Twelve Caesars or The Four Seasons for one costly drink amid the greatest elegance available to me, burn for one brief moment! I hoped for a triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Drunkspeare | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

With 9:43 left in the contest, sophomore center White banged home a Vicki Palmer centering pass to knot the game at one and save the Crimson from defeat. Senior Lisa Glen controlled the puck in the corner to Mason's right and fed behind the net to Palmer who directed the disk in front of the goal where White wasted no time drilling it past Mason for her second goal of the season...

Author: By William A. Danoff, | Title: Icewomen Best Yale, 2-1, in Overtime; Yunick Goal Decisive in Dramatic Win | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

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