Word: playing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson had not expected the Huskies to play such a tight game. The report that UMass, the only team to beat Harvard last season, had stunned the Huskies 6-1 brought on visions of a romp. But UConn coach Margaret Dunlop had regrouped her young team and when they stepped on the field Saturday they refused to be intimidated. While the Crimson was constantly within scoring range, the aggressive play of fullback Sue LaVigne thwarted the mighty Crimson offense time after time...
regulation play, the Crimson reappeared on the field fully ready to control play in the overtime periods. Completely adjusted to each others' styles of play, the squad once again looked like a unit as they outshot the UConn team 15-1 in those final twenty minutes...
...ranging from bowling and swimming (he can execute an impressive one-and-a-half flip off the diving board at the Camp David pool) to fly-fishing and quail hunting. During his first 20 months in the White House, Carter tended to get most of his exercise through tennis, playing at least five times a week and teaching Rosalynn to play. He took up jogging a year ago, when he held the Middle East summit at Camp David and discovered he had no time for tennis. Says Lukash: "In his usual fashion, he went at it intensely...
Having already banned alcohol and pop music broadcasts, cracked down on prostitution and drugs, and closed or muzzled 40 publications in Iran, Khomeini showed no sign of letting up on his systematic campaign to cleanse the country of the "filth" of foreign influence. "There is no room for play in Islam. It is dead serious about everything." he declared earlier to a gathering of supporters at Qum's Madreseh Faizieh Islamic academy. "We want mujaheds [crusaders], not drunken revelers...
...face meetings with the Soviet leaders. It is human to yearn to make a decisive breakthrough toward peace. Presidents are strengthened in this temptation by an American public that finds it difficult to accept the existence of irreconcilable hostility and tends to see international relations in terms of the play of individual personalities...