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Look for the Huskies to try to pester the Crimson out of its offense with some overly physical play. Look for Harvard to turn the other cheek. Or look for the Crimson to retaliate, and watch Cleary explode. When Mike Vukonich got in a fight against Brown near the Harvard bench, Cleary yanked the 6-ft., 210-lb. forward out of the fray himself...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Icemen Stagger Into Garden Tonight For 38th Beanpot | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

...deep night out on a Texas plain flat as a pan bottom and just about burned through. A recent rain had slaked the land a little but brought forth legions of ants to infest the ground and pester a nearby film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock's Renaissance Man | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

Seriously, this doll stuff has got to go. Further dolls include pound puppies, teach and play kids, wide-eyed or sleepy real babies, kari-me babies, koosas, etc. Robots, too, now serve as companions, as shown by Omnibot, Omni 2000 (a steal at $399.97), Pester Puppy and Cat (why does the feline cost $20 more than the pooch?) and Alphie II. How are today's kids ever going to learn to deal with other tots who want different things for lunch and who who bleed if you bang them off furniture? Nothing is sadder than the five-year...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Kids' Stuff | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

...says there are some difficulties inherent in making a living on the street: beggars sometimes pester him for loose change, and transients sometimes ask him for cigarettes...

Author: By Adam H. Gorfain, | Title: Curbside Hustler Finds Chess, Money Make a Perfect Match | 10/28/1983 | See Source »

...there was Serge Mihaly, who combined with Leone to hotfoot the Harvard quarterbacks all afternoon, slithering past the blockers and crashing into the Crimson backfield to pester whoever was throwing the ball (Harvard passed out of the quarterback-in-motion formation all afternoon, back-up Don Allard launching 23 passes to starter Cuccia's seven...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Yale Baffles Harvard in 28-0 Debacle, Earns Ivy Title Share With Dartmouth | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

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