Word: passings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard's 10-0 victory over Lowell yesterday, for example, Cutone and Landau connected on a beautiful pass for the goal...
WORCESTER--Holy Cross (6-1) won its 15th-straight home game here Saturday, 49-13, behind three touchdown passes from Tom Ciaccio. Ciaccio's third TD pass, a 5-yd. screen pass to flanker Mark Gallagher, increased the Crusaders lead to 28-13 with 8:19 left in the third quarter...
...smoking aboard flights lasting less than two hours took effect. Now legislators have reached an agreement to forbid smoking on all commercial flights within the continental U.S. and on flights of six hours or less between the mainland and Alaska and Hawaii. The legislation, which is expected to pass both the House and Senate, also applies to foreign airlines for any part of their flights within the U.S. Flight attendants worried about their own health, and many airline executives happy to get rid of the hassle of separating smokers and nonsmokers, approved the ban. After this latest loss, the tobacco...
...Dear George: You win again. F.D.R." The George was George Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, and the F.D.R. was, of course, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was congratulating him for persuading a reluctant Congress to pass a bill they both deemed essential for Allied victory in World War II. Short as it was, the President's letter summarized his admiration for the co-architect of American strategy: without Marshall in Washington, he said, he could not sleep at night. In fact, that justifiable anxiety cost Marshall the job he so greatly coveted: Supreme Commander in Europe, which went instead...
...appear to be seeking change. "One could say they are willing to usher in a new South Africa," he says, "but some of us have serious doubts because they are still talking about group rights. That to us is still apartheid." Even so, black leaders do not want to pass up what could be an opportunity. They understand that De Klerk is not simply going to hand over the government and that a step-by-step process is the only realistic approach. "But if we were to say that publicly," one leader admits, "it would have a devastating effect...