Word: leech
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wildcats came back again in the third period, however, moving within one on Jay Leech's fastbreak goal with four minutes gone in the half. Crisis point came a few minutes later when some unfriendly referees left the Crimson two men down. The Harvard defense held, however, creating a turning point and setting the stage for the late Crimson assault...
...Norman Forbush 2 4 6 Faught 4 4 0 4 Ward 3 0 3 Egasti 2 0 2 Bill Forbush 0 2 2 Wiggiesworth 0 1 1 Miller 0 1 1 UNIV. OF NEW HAMPSHIRE Ryan 1 2 3 Ganzer 2 0 2 Noyes 1 1 2 Leech 1 1 2 Fay 1 0 1 Van Vieck...
...potential as a Black individual. They have adopted me, instructed me, and cared for me ever since I've been at this college. So have some of my white brothers and sisters--yet, Mr. Kilson, my friendship with these white people is not the result of a blood sucking leech relationship to people I want to "get something out of," but a true human relationship of sincerity and honesty between people, not Blacks and Whites. I make no pretense to the people through whom I wish to make connections; I need not be sneaky and underhanded simply because...
...able to come to cleave to, find the form for one's own life comprehensions" is also essential. To have that kind of confidence, a writer needs to be taken seriously and appreciated. Here Olsen is at her best. She painstakingly identifies the societal attitudes and practices that leech away a person's strength and sense of self before he or she ever gets to the stage of being an artist, and again after he or she does, against all odds, become a creator...
Lucy feels some aversion to Hacker, but she does warm to her new neighbor, Count Dracula. The caped leech has been visiting more regularly than anyone realizes--and not to borrow cups of sugar, either. It is only a matter of time before the heroic trinity of Seward, Hacker and Van Helsing realize what evil, half-human force they must fight in their quest to save Lucy. Two and a half acts later, they will nail...