Word: robins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first match of the four-team round robin tournament, Harvard outgunned Tufts, 16-4 Saturday afternoon, the Crimson demolished Northeastern, 13-4 in a game marked by fine defensive play on the part of Harvard...
This weekend Harvard will play in the NCAA Eastern Regionals of the National Championship at Cornell. Five teams, including the Crimson, are entered in the Saturday and Sunday round robin competition. The others include Cornell, Army, Bucknell and Yale...
...industrial satellites police have been loath to venture off major arteries since Maoist Naxalites stabbed three of their colleagues to death in dark alleys as part of a deliberate campaign of terror. Heavy guard details have trailed diplomats in Montevideo since July, when Uruguay's Tupamaro guerrillas shed their Robin Hood image and wantonly murdered a political hostage. Canada was still tense following the brutal murder by fanatic Quebec separatists of a government official; a small band of terrorists, trying to blackmail the government, succeeded in frightening the entire country and forcing the suspension of some civil liberties...
...modern woman's "barely there" face. Houses are becoming sexless: they contain few leather club chairs or boudoir chairs-or even boudoirs. In interior decoration, the most popular hue is a noncolor, beige. Names too are sexually equivocal; one child out of five has a name like Robin or Leslie or Dana...
...race, which was eventually won by a cheerful merchant navy officer named Robin Knox-Johnston, had been sponsored by the London Sunday Times. Two Times reporters. Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall, took on the task of deciphering the record of the only contestant-out of nine-who did not return. Before they were through, they went far beyond Donald Crowhurst's logs. The resulting book is a portrait of the ill-fated adventurer as well as an examination of his tragic voyage and dishonest messages. It is about a man who attempted an elaborate fraud, went slowly insane...