Word: letup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going to be lots of room to stretch out. I can imagine the Crimson's losing, but I have to try hard. Harvard is in the rare position of avenging a loss to the Bruins and will be well aware of what can happen if there is a letup in effort. We may be entertained by some fine running by both sides, and by at least one halftime show. Cap'n Crunch put his whipper snapper to work on this one and decided on the Crimson...
...physicist and pioneering researcher into the characteristics of explosives; of a heart attack; in South Bristol, Maine. Though he lost both hands in a lab explosion while a student at Yale, Brinkley did not let the tragedy hamper his career: he learned to use artificial hands, experimented without letup. His treatise on blast wave theory, written with Cornell Professor John Kirkwood, is a classic in its field...
...people who just kept coming, one after another every few yards. Here it was 3:30 a.m., and it seemed a certainty that there would be a lag. But these people just kept coming, and they were to march into view there for another 28 hours without a letup. Each one with a name...