Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Linebackers: From being unknowns at season's start, Kris Thabit and Richard Mau have become Harvard's most pleasant surprise of the year. The pair played outstandingly against Northeastern's Wishbone formation, and solidly ever since. Grade: B-plus...
...from researchers at France's Pasteur Institute. He dismisses as a myth the competing claim of Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute and, quoting U.S. researchers, strongly implies that Gallo stole the French strain and presented it as his own, a charge Gallo denies. Shilts labels as a "pleasant fiction" a 1987 U.S.-French political accord that settled lawsuits and deemed Gallo and France's Dr. Luc Montagnier "co-discoverers" of the virus...
...cheering fact that without his presence the British government would be spending still more of the money it so patently lacks. He may then view his summer in the light of a charitable contribution to the British economy and return to his native climes in a rosy glow of pleasant self-righteousness...
...they appear with their hands clenched, facing Ted Koppel on ABC's Nightline. So it was last week with Gary Hart, as the defrocked candidate tried out his first tentative TV steps on the road to rehabilitation. That such a cathartic spectacle was inevitable did not make the show pleasant to watch. Doggedly Hart went through the rituals of redemption: he used the phrase "serious mistake" four times, "bad judgment" three times, and twice confessed his "sins." He even acknowledged, months after it ceased to have any conceivable relevance to the public debate, that he had not always been "absolutely...
...derbies and bowlathons and the like to help Beverly James compete. She is the tenth of twelve children -- "eight of whom have finished college," her mother Penny says with pride -- and her father Roscoe has Parkinson's disease. Beverly, 19, who functions at a second-grade level intellectually, is pleasant and mannerly, but she is shy. Townspeople collected enough money to send her mother and two women coaches along for support. Last Tuesday afternoon she hit her start on the button and ran a fast 8.7 50-meter dash, her personal best by 1.9 seconds, good enough for a bronze...