Word: press
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Senior co-captain Bob Hooft (seven rebounds, 15 points) and challenging freshman guard Donald Fleming (18 points off the bench) led the losing effort for Harvard. But it was a hustling team game--an almost-constant full court press, and a scrappy though poor shooting (.338) offense--that kept the Crimson in a game that could have been a blow...
...Crimson seemed on the verge of pulling off a real shocker as they continued to harass the frazzled Minutemen with the press and connected on consecutive breaking layups to make the score 38-37 just four minutes into the second half...
UMass responded with a full-court press, throwing the young Crimson five off balance, while Peters hit for a pair of two-pointers. The UMass guns were relatively quiet in the first eight minutes, but gradually found the range and began to pull away...
...known, for example, that the FBI sent an anonymous letter to Martin Luther King in 1963 suggesting that he commit suicide and that they tried to prevent him from meeting with Pope Paul VI in 1964. It is known that the FBI circulated false personal letters in the press and the mails for the purpose of discrediting participants in the anti-war movement. It is known that the FBI's largest dollar and man-hour activity was "No. 1-type activity"--activity aimed at "preventing people from teaching and meeting and speaking," according to the Senate Subcommittee on Intelligence...
Neither the Select Senate Committee nor any other investigative body has ever ascertained why the FBI placed King's SCLC in its list of black nationalist hate groups. The Senate Committee's report concluded that King's attacks of Hoover in the national press in part caused the director to overreact to King's presence on the national political scene...