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Word: letting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...things aren't going to be pretty right away. The rules for success in the ECAC are still the same--talent, experience and playing Princeton twice a year. The freshmen again looked strong, and that kind of good omen hasn't been around for four years--or since Harvard let Kevin Constantine get away...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Engineers Hand Icemen First Setback | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...remaining hostages, proclaimed a spokesman for the students, would now be tried for espionage in the Islamic Revolutionary Courts and "punished in accordance with the severity of their crimes." The Ayatullah himself later confirmed the scheme, adding that the trials would only be halted and the hostages let go if the U.S. returned the Shah. Warned a senior official of West Germany's foreign ministry when told of the threat: "With the turmoil and fanaticism in Iran, one has to be prepared even for the outrage of the hostages' execution, even though that would be international murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: The Test of Wills | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...person with extreme humility," he says. Rouhollah Ramanzani, an Iranian scholar teaching at the University of Virginia, points out that according to the Islamic code, "if an undesirable individual enters into the Muslim domain, then that person must be protected and escorted to the boundaries of that domain to let him out safely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: An Ideology of Martyrdom | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

Late in the week Iran further complicated the situation by declaring that American companies would no longer be permitted even to buy Iranian crude, let alone deliver it to the U.S. The petroleum will be sold instead to any non-U.S. oil companies that want it, leaving the U.S. firms to scrounge on world markets for whatever available non-Iranian cargoes turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Economy Becomes a Hostage | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

Forget George and Jackie Hughes, and don't let the ties and jackets in section 18 get you down. Excitement has returned to Harvard hockey...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Flying Frosh Lead Pucksters to Win | 11/21/1979 | See Source »

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