Word: secret
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston public school teachers voted late last night in a secret ballot to accept a new contract offer from the Boston School Committee, averting a threatened strike by thz 5500 teachers today...
...BROWN: Brown football turns 100 years old this season, and its no secret that at least 95 of these seasons have been losing ones. The last four have been the exceptions, and this one could quite possibly be the beginning of Coach John Anderson's rule. Anderson has been less than a yard shy of the championship each of the last three campaigns; this season he should have no excuses...
...HARVARD and PENN: As complicated as Coach Restic's multiflex offense might be at times, there's no secret to the key for Harvard football this season, that being how well Restic fills the seven vacated spots in his defense. For the first time since Restic rode in, in 1971, the Crimson is without a first or second team All-League player on the squad. As always, the divinely created schedule will help Harvard...
Indeed, his rafting adventure down the Salmon was perhaps the farthest withdrawal from the presidency, both physically and emotionally, that has been managed by any recent Chief Executive. It is true that Secret Service agents with their guns and radios were near by in other rafts. But their security paraphernalia were covered with outdoor garb, and even television cameras and reporters were banished from the immediate scene. For a few hours at a time then, the President heard only the rush of clear water, the muffled voices of family and friends, and the quiet language of trees and animals...
...then pleased by the new Pope, a lifelong pastor and teacher who seemed to show a rare blend of strength and humility, a fine gift for words, a reassuring balance between kindness and worldly practicality. But how had he come to be chosen? And why? Had some kind of secret combine among the Princes of the Church brought Luciani to the fore? Or a compromise that, despite formal assertions of happiness, really left nobody happy...