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Word: nearly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Keller-Sarmiento actually created Harvard's first near miss. A short time into the half he pivoted near the right side of the penalty area, releasing a deceptively hard shot that only a full-length Tabak save could keep away from the back...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Booters Battle Penn to Scoreless Tie | 11/13/1979 | See Source »

Penn fullback Glenn Etter thwarted Harvard's best opportunity with just ten minutes left in the game. Mogollan seemed to have a break-away as he ran onto a beautiful pass from Smith near the edge of the penalty box. Only a superb left-footed tackle from behind by Etter saved Tabak from what would have been his toughest test...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Booters Battle Penn to Scoreless Tie | 11/13/1979 | See Source »

...special session on Saturday he saw defendant Edward Soares beating Andrew P. Puopolo '77 after Puopolo had been stabbed in the abdomen. Raymond "Scott" Coolidge '78, another member of the Harvard football team, testified on Friday that he saw Leon Easterling, another defendant, repeatedly stab Puopolo in the chest near the van in which several of the players travelled to the Zone for a traditional end-of-season celebration...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Defense Says Puopolo Jury Manipulated | 11/13/1979 | See Source »

Police arrested no one near the funeral procession, but officers arrested 35 outside the parade limits and impounded one vehicle loaded with guns and hand grenades...

Author: By Thomas Hines, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Hundreds of Police, Guardsmen Shield Mourners in Greensboro | 11/13/1979 | See Source »

...former employees and leftist ideologues have not added up to a balanced appraisal of the agency. To a considerable extent, that task has been accomplished by Thomas Powers, a former U.P.I, reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1971 for his coverage of the radical bomber Diana Oughton. With near clinical detachment, Powers has produced a remarkably realistic portrait of American intelligence beset by bureaucratic rivalries, personality clashes and presidential caprice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: High-Wire Act | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

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