Word: period
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fullback Mark Akey notched the first points of the game, taking a quick opener off left guard from the Harvard three for six points at 0:01 in the second period...
...John went to work, finally hitting Rich Horner on a play-action pass from the nine-yd. line for a score. Cody's kick knotted the game at 7-7, just 1:17 into the final period...
...Crimson trotted onto the field to start the first ten-minute period of overtime play, the players looked poised and almost amused rather than worried...
...which the author "thanks God" for his father's death--Geoffrey Wolff's Duke of Deception seems to belong to this nightmares-in-the-nursery trend. But the initial likenesses are misleading; unlike his fellow excavators of the past, Wolff's maturity enables him to emerge--after a respectable period of thrashing--from the muck. He unflinchingly lays out the shoddiest episodes of a shameful upbringing, yet from this scrutiny he extracts a peace with that segment of his life over which he had no control...
...life to what she calls the Future--the utopia of a South Africa without apartheid or capitalism. Her parents ask her for sacrifices as calmly as one would ask for directions. Rosa fakes a romance with a political prisoner to smuggle messages, hides excruciating cramps from her first period to bring her mother a quilt in prison, watches her parents and her brother die stoically...