Word: seed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Naming B.C. as fourth seed rankles the Crimson players, who were eyeing a tournament berth for themselves. Harvard beat the Eagles here last month, 5-3, and the B.C. record is an unspectacular...
...three singles matches will be close. Yale's Jack Waltz was top seed in last weekend's New England Tournament but got knocked out in a first round upset. His opponent today, Harvard's John Levin, kept his cool in the tournament and made it to the final round before losing...
Glorified Shacks. They could have made a better living doing almost anything else. They seldom stayed long in one place, toting their ramshackle presses from one cluster of shacks in the sagebrush to the next. In their papers, they glorified each new stopping place as the seed of a surging city, though in fact they often went bankrupt, and some of the towns themselves disappeared. Two San Francisco papers, the California Star and the Californian, folded overnight when the city was emptied by the 1848 gold rush. William J. Forbes, who published the Virginia City (Nev.) Daily Trespass, gave...
...NORTH END there are no supermarkets with piles of sealed cans and waxy frozen packages. Instead, the wealth of food is spread out through blocks of small shops. Bakeries are a jumble of fresh pizza, sesame seed rolls, zeppelin shaped loaves. Fruit and vegetables come live and kicking from baskets and boxes. You want meat? Then go next door to the butcher. There's sure to be one. Outside his store freshly slaughtered lambs and rabbits (still with head and fur) hang from red hooks, and well preserved pig heads leer through the front window. Inside Al or Louie...
...moment has all the advantages. The very Ky qualities that sometimes rub the generals the wrong way are electorally appealing: Ky's flamboyance in dress and dashing manner, his pilot's lean good looks and his beautiful wife. Moreover, Ky has, as Premier, been able to seed some key posts in the government with powerful supporters, such as Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of security and the political police...