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...through the tough times, scarcely a feather has rustled from the Orioles' nest. Manager Earl Weaver has taken a nine-game losing streak and a 10-17 overall record as calmly as the tirade-prone sparkplug can be expected to. And the team has hung together, hoping that time will bring out another resurgence...

Author: By Mike Abramowitz, | Title: Champs Fight For Cellar | 5/13/1982 | See Source »

Inexcusable, however, is his superfluous observation that an inordinately high percentage of these intrusive callers have been women. He mourns for the atrophy of some peculiarly female instinct for the sanctity--the inviolability--of the nest concluding of course that the attenuation of such feminine gentility can be attributed to "the wide-spread professionalization of women at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professorial Privacy | 5/1/1982 | See Source »

Taking time to live a little, flying so far from the nest...

Author: By Constance M. Laibe, | Title: More Than Margaritaville | 3/11/1982 | See Source »

...army claimed to have suffered 16 dead and 31 wounded in the action, but the casualty toll may have been substantially higher. Said TIME Photographer Harry Mattison, who witnessed the fighting: "Dead bodies were being stacked like logs. The army decided to hit a wasp's nest and was heavily stung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: Stung by a Wasp's Nest | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

...Briggs Cage project and the renovation of the Stadium, which is scheduled to begin nest week, take place as planners enter the last phase of a building program which began after a 1975 Athletic Department study which encompassed three years of surveying Harvard's athletic outlook-recommended that a university that promise, athletics for all ought to construct facilities capable of serving all of its athletes...

Author: By Thomas J. Meyer, | Title: 'Athletics for All' | 3/6/1982 | See Source »

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