Word: marked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coaches in the country, Nahigian was the unanimous choice of Harvard's six-member search committee. In 19 seasons at Providence, Nahigian compiled a 224-177-2 record, and was named New England Coach of the Year in 1973, when he led the Friars to a 23-5-1 mark...
...move. For the better part of an hour after the game, they remained where they were, bouncing rhythmically up and down, throwing whatever bits of paper they had forgotten to throw earlier, waving thousands of blue-and-white national flags and roaring, "Argentina! Ar-gen-ti-na!" To mark the occasion, antigovernment terrorists known as the Montoneros strewed pamphlets about Buenos Aires, praising the team but deploring the nation's rulers, and bombed the house of the Treasury Secretary...
...concentrated my last week in the famine area on estimating figures. My best estimate was five million dead or dying -which may have been 20% off the mark, one way or the other. But figures that large become statistics, thus forgettable. My sharpest memory is a glimpse, at evening as we were riding, of two people lying in a field sobbing. They were a man and his woman, and they were holding each other in the field where they lay, intertwined to give warmth to each other. I knew they would die and I could not stop...
Hurley had made his mark as a politician in the Republican convention of 1928 in Houston, where he was one of the floor managers corralling delegates for Herbert Hoover. An Oklahoma corporation lawyer, he got his piece of the traditional share-out of office after a Presidential victory, being named Secretary of War in 1928. Later Franklin Roosevelt, making the war a bipartisan effort, sent Hurley, now accoutered as a major general, to negotiate with Chiang K'ai-shek for both the creation of a coalition government between Communists and Nationalists...
...NOTEBOOK: Yesterday's crowd of over 31,000 put the Sox over the million mark for the earliest time in the club's history. There is talk that the Red Sox will draw 2.2 million this season, which is outrageous considering that Fenway Park couldn't hold a decent Billy Graham revival...