Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Here were the Crimson racquetmen, 4-2 on a southern swing, and, in the words of their mentor, "beating up their lesser opponents" upon their return north. Everything seemed to be falling into place, as Harvard prepared for its matches with the class of the Ivies, Columbia, Penn and Princeton. Then lightening, in the form of divine intervention of a negative sort, struck...
...horizon; others swarm and cluster like a plague of monstrous locusts. Spread over 2,500 acres is an air armada that seems big enough to start World War III or, judging by the vintage of some of the craft, to replay World War II or any lesser conflict of the intervening years. Phalanxes of helicopters, their windows painted over, large numbers on their blunt noses, bear an eerie resemblance to massed football linemen. The air base is not some secret, Seven Days in May outpost, but the Pentagon's Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center (MASDC), a giant parking...
Liebman said that the suspension or expulsion punishment for disruptors was not a "blanket punishment," but that a disciplinary body could decide to impose a lesser punishment instead...
...disciplinary body would, however, be required to "justify this lesser punishment to the trustees." Liebman said...
...sure base for their soaring and sometimes frantically demonic melodies. The piece is full of fast unison passages for the strings which would glaringly expose any inconsistency in rhythm or pitch. Chang and Hogan played best in these sections that would have frazzled the nerves and ears of lesser musicians...