Word: mason
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...acted on his own. There was widespread speculation among Soviet diplomats that Lyndon Johnson, along with the CIA and the Mafia, had masterminded the plot. Johnson was anathema to Khrushchev. Because he was a Southerner, Moscow considered him a racist (the stereotype of any American politician from below the Mason-Dixon line), an anti-Soviet, and anti-Communist to boot. Further, since Johnson was from Texas, a center of the reactionary forces in the U.S., according to the Soviets, he was associated with the big-time capitalism of the oil industry, also known to be anti- Soviet. He "smells oily...
...just couldn't match their quickness," first-year Dartmouth Coach Ron Mason said. "At times we looked as if we were standing still. That's the second time Harvard beat us and as far as I'm concerned it's the best team we've played all year--and that includes RPI and Clarkson...
Surviving is even more damning in its indictment of the suicidal teen-agers' parents. Lonnie's folks (Marsha Mason and Paul Sorvino) offer little understanding or support for their daughter after an earlier attempt to kill herself. Rick's father (Len Cariou) puts undue pressure on the boy to do well in school; his mother (Ellen Burstyn) is obliviously wrapped up in her work with foreign-exchange students. In the scope and ferocity of its family suffering, Surviving approaches the proportions of a Greek tragedy. Unfortunately, it lapses into bathos in the final hour, as the bereaved parents wade through...
...attempt not to compete with the ongoing Harvard Campaign, the K-School is trying to find a major donor for the building rather that several small donors, Mason added...
After the score Dartmouth Coach Brain Mason ranked starting netminder Jay Samek, who had recorded a single save...