Word: margin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Whitten plan surfaced last summer, Attorney General John Mitchell passed the word that the Administration had no objection. HEW Secretary Robert Finch, though he had his doubts, remained silent. As a result, the House approved the amendment by a wide margin. By last week, as the measure reached the Senate floor, the Administration had changed its tune. With Finch declaring the Administration "unalterably opposed" and Mitchell quietly going along, Republican Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott moved to amend the amendment. As modified by Scott, the bill still prohibits HEW from taking any of the actions proscribed by Whitten...
...goal finally came, but only when it was almost too late to be effective. At 7:16 John Snyder beat Durno to narrow the margin to a goal, and two minutes later Eagle Tim Sheehy fed Charlie Toczylowski to tie the score...
...Crimson prevented the Huskies from playing their shoot-and-crash-the boards style of game early in the first half by screening them from the boards. Harvard pulled ahead 19-15 and steadily increased the margin...
...Yardlings exploded to a 20-point lead early in the second half, over-powering the Huskies on the boards. But Northeastern came back and cut the margin to 81-70 with a full-court press that forced numerous Crimson ball-handling mistakes...
Coach Ken Klug showed his reserve strength as the second and third units maintained the wide margin with only token help from the first team at the start of the second half. The score read 60-24 at half time, and at the end of the third period...