Word: packs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many good boys die over there," he says, fingering a pack of the cigarettes he still buys tax-free from a Boston-area military commissary. The clock in the Lowell House Superintendent's Office reads 8:30. Four hours...
...author sorrowfully concludes that Soviet society was not prepared for the short-lived libertarian movement. The worst enemies of escaping prisoners were people - their "fellow countrymen"- who shot at them or joined the pack of police pursuers. (The penalty for helping an escapee was 25 years; the reward for catching one was a barrel of herring.) When the women prisoners who had survived the Kengir uprising were marched out of the camp at machine-gun point, jeering female inhabitants of the nearby settlement shouted "Dirty whores!" at them...
...that point in the race Harvard left the trailing pack but that was not close enough. A strong sprint still left the Crimson three-quarters of a length behind at the line. Yale had won by 2.9 seconds...
...lead before Currier powered through them to lead by a little open water at 800 meters. At 1500, with 200 meters left, Currier seemed to be gliding to victory but a crab stalled the Quad eight, more Eliot caught them, and won by 2.9 seconds. The rest of the pack crossed the line at least 6.9 seconds behind Currier...
Martha Roberts, Harvard's top seed, did put some kinks into the Green rampage. Roberts' effective use of the lob and her steady volleying fell just a tiebreaker short of capturing the second set in her match with the leader of the Dartmouth pack, Thayer Wendell...