Word: one-man
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...second consecutive night, Boston lifted goalie Ross Brooks in the waning seconds of the game. Both times, the Bruin's one-man advantage has yielded game-tying tallies...
...Kansas and guided the Jayhawks to 24 conference championships. He retired in 1956, leaving a record (771 games won, 233 lost for a .768 percentage over his 46-year career) that stood until 1968-the year one of Allen's own students, Adolph Rupp, broke it. Allen's proudest achievement came in 1936, when, as a result of his one-man crusade, basketball became an Olympic sport...
HIID now says that an existing program in South Korea (where a one-man despotism is rapidly taking shape) will be terminated at the expiration of its contract this year because, as HIID Associate Director John C. Eddison says, "Harvard feels uncomfortable with political developments in Korea in the past year." He adds that HIID would like to end the involvement sooner except that there is some fear of repercussions against Koreans working with the advisory team if a sudden pullout were to occur...
...past four years a one-man road show named Lester Maddox has been touring Georgia. At rural crossroads and in small towns where his beloved "little people" congregate, Maddox, 59, sings hymns and country ballads, plays his harmonica, and pedals his star-spangled bicycle backward. The object is to give Maddox a second term as Governor, a post he held from 1967 to 1971. Prohibited by state law from succeeding himself, Maddox has been biding his time as Lieutenant Governor while waging the campaign he calls his "last hurrah." Last week that effort suffered a setback that may be fatal...
That someone would eventually attempt to kill Park was not a great surprise to many Koreans. He has no shortage of enemies, real or imagined: the repressive measures he has imposed since January to shore up his one-man rule have been widely condemned both at home and abroad. Under Park's stern decrees, nine people have been tried and sentenced to death; 162 others have been given prison sentences ranging from three years to life. Last week alone, Park's military courts sentenced 62 opponents of the regime to stiff prison terms for plotting to overthrow...