Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Down by ten at the half, 39-29, the hoopsters cut the margin to eight while Perry was out of the game. Bob Hooft, Jeff Hill and Dave Rogers then fouled out halfway through the final frame, and Holy Cross cruised to an easy 86-68 triumph...
...consolation game Harvard was drubbed by a too tall team from Georgetown, 60-40. The Hoyas outrebounded the Crimson by an obnoxious 49-28 margin...
...Swedes. The team that played Harvard some two and a half weeks ago in Watson Rink--just about the time everyone else was heading out to Logan--was by no means Sweden's number one unit. Had it been, the Crimson would not have triumphed by a 10-5 margin, a win which did nothing for its record but wonders...
That speech pushed Carter too far to the left, and he later tried to move back toward the middle. But his position in the political spectrum remained unclear, and he alienated many of the independents. On Nov. 2 Ford carried white America by a narrow margin. The Georgian was saved by the Americans who trusted him most: the blacks. They felt at ease with the white Southerner who had fought, though vainly, to integrate his hometown church, and who had put so many blacks into government at all levels in Georgia. Indeed, they had more faith in Carter than...
...Foreign Secretary George Canning's justification of the Monroe Doctrine: "We have called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the old." Shielded by two oceans and enriched by a bountiful nature, we proclaimed our special situation as universally valid, even for nations whose narrower margin of survival meant that their range of choices was far more limited than...