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Never learned to nip in the bud anger to hatred to violence to fury to madness to destruction! Henry Ratliff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ratliff File | 2/21/1981 | See Source »

...women's swim team hits the water for the Ivy League championships on Friday, looking to finish third, behind the nip-and-tuck first place battle between Princeton and Brown. Brown may have the advantage as the Bruins will host the meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.C. on Tap For Icewomen | 2/14/1981 | See Source »

...hostages. In Milwaukee, the Journal started printing a special eight-page wraparound section moments before the planes carrying the hostages to freedom took off from Tehran. The special sold an extra 45,000 over the normal press run of 320,000. Says Assistant Managing Editor George Lockwood: "It was nip and tuck at the end. There were butterflies in our stomachs." Newspapers in the U.S. and Europe generally gave the hostage story top billing over the Inauguration, but the New York Times led with Reagan's swearing-in. Said Times News Editor Allan Siegal: "In terms of real importance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: We'd Better Be Ready | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

...Crimson, on the other hand, has been known to play some of its best basketball in the closing stages of the second half. Most recently, the squad came from seven points down with five minutes to play to nip UNH, 80-79, just before Christmas break. For that reason alone, it should prove an interesting match...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Upended in Texas, 91-68, Crimson to Face Brown In Ivy League Opener | 1/6/1981 | See Source »

...division singles, Navy's Bailey Taff had to sail through a Crimson sea to pull out a championship. He defeated Bob Horne, 6-2, 6-4, in the semi-finals, and then came from way behind to nip Mike Terner in the finals, 7-5, 1-6, 7-6. Terner fought back from a 4-1 deficit in the final tiebreaker, only to lose the final point on a clutch overhead smash by the Midshipman...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Crimson Netmen Trail Only Princeton, Finish 2nd in Eastern Championships | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

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