Word: nanning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time Mostert has evoked this world-as graphically as Conrad presents the Sturm und Drang facing the captain of the steamer Nan-Shan in Typhoon-the reader, stuffed with sea lore, has been shanghaied aboard a ghostly voyage from the demanding past into the threatening future. Ardshiel has bicycles-for exercising on deck-but no ship pets, because. Mostert suggests, there is no crew continuity. (By contrast, the Aquitania, when scrapped in 1950, disgorged ship's cats all descended from a tabby who went aboard on the maiden voyage in 1914). Mostert mildly mourns the fact that nobody refers...
Seven minutes later, Radcliffe jumped to a 2-0 lead. Left wing Cha-Nan Tang was responsible for this tally, as she slid a bouncing ball past the beleaguered Pine Manor goalie...
...Nan Vogt, co-master of Kirkland House, acknowledged that the response to a questionnaire circulated there was disappointing. "Only 58 of the 340 students returned them," she said, "but those expressed a very strong and definite opinion. I think we are still hoping we can manage something with their suggestions...
...powerful Green, meanwhile, pressured the Radcliffe defense with a relentless attack the entire game. Only the stalwart efforts of Nancy Sato, Ann Dupuis, and Cha-Nan Tang, who was moved to the back line from her familiar center forward position, kept the score at a respectable 2-0 during the first half...
...Nan Taylor...