Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crooked river," said he. "The name Curley River would be most appropriate. We could settle for one of the more crooked sections of the Charles, preferably in a Democratic precinct, and christen that area 'The Curley Way.' You know, like Hell's Gate at the narrows near New York City...
...Harvard cagers simply could not keep pace with fast-breaking Columbia last night and succumbed to the Lions' superior quickness, 96-82, before a near capacity crowd...
...rather keep control of the amendment process themselves. The pressure for a convention comes chiefly from Republican state legislators, and all but five of the 29 states which have already asked Congress to summon a convention are west of the Mississippi--the same area which gave Gerald Ford his near...
...summit, Yates decided to leave the trail and bushwhack the rest of the way down, mindful of the plane and the ranger he had run into two days before. He continued to hike into the night, hoping to avoid rangers, get out of the park and station himself near the road for the trip back to Cambridge the next day. Unfortunately, he did not go far enough. Although he was outside the park boundaries, the rangers, who had been on his trail for two days, tracked him down early the next morning...
...expect "Plaza Suite," or even "Pi Eta Suite," but do try to see Overtures in Asia Minor, the 1979 Hasty Pudding offering. This year's showcase of lousy puns and a male kickline deals with spies in Near East opium dens and a butler who, quoting T.S. Eliot, foils a dastardly scheme to prevent forever Anglo-Saxon morality. Or something like that. The plot doesn't really matter, with all those sumptuous sets and gorgeous costumes and knock-out numbers. And those legs. At the Hasty Pudding Theater (would any decent place house this show...