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When Yovicsin replaced Foster, there was a very subtle but important change in the offense. It seemed that some of the team's spunk was lost in the transition from one quarterback to another, and Columbia took full advantage of the Crimson's sag in morale...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Yovicsin Must Choose Quarterback | 10/29/1970 | See Source »

Weather could be a factor today. If it rains, the Crimson passing attack could sag and then the offensive thrust would depend almost solely on the line's ability to forceably remove the Knights. Nothing negates speed and quickness more easily than...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Crimson Gridders Host Rutgers | 10/3/1970 | See Source »

...Equal pay for equal work? Fight like the devil for it. Burn your bras (if you don't sag). But, please, don't deny your femininity; it is a part of your significance as a human being (it is not nearly all of your worth, although some of my sex seem to think it is). And, I beg of you, do not throw your children into day-care centers; she (he) needs you. Rearing a child is no menial task, but is too momentous to be subordinated and too important to fail. Its importance and difficulty should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 21, 1970 | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

...Strine. Now he and Psychologist Robert Hay, 33, have started a six-week crash course in Australian usage and pronunciation for Asian students at the University of New South Wales. Students are given isolated bits of Strine to cover all sorts of contingencies-envy is usually a case of sag rapes, and summer nights can be hell when the egg ni '-ner (air conditioner) is on the blink. Students often use a handbook on Strine that sets up little dramatic situations larded with lingo. What, for instance, should a wife do with a layabout husband? "Fitwer smeeide leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Strain of Strine | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

Screaming boys line the spitting range, older folks crowd up in folding aluminum chairs, and the bleachers sag under the weight of several hundred cheek-to-jowl spectators as Don Snyder begins his assault on the distance crown. The 22 entrants spew down the range. There are three rounds, and Snyder on his first try comes to within a foot of George Craft's 13-year-old record. On the second round he narrows the difference to less than two inches. Then Snyder arches his last shot 25 ft. 10 in. for a new world's record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene: The 16th Annual Tobacco Spit-Off | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

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