Word: seed
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Harvard, the most improved team in the Ivies (it had a 7-12 mark last year), holds the second seed, and the other first-round bye. The first-round matchups, set for Friday, pit third-seeded Cornell versus Brown, and Dartmouth against Yale. The Crimson will play a semifinal contest at 12:30 pm. at Thompson Arena Saturday, and a Sunday 3 p.m. final (or 11:30 a.m. consolation game...
...been calculated with excruciating directness to erect a new social order there, a political unit that would continue the support of West Pakistan's dominance over the economic and political life of the nation. With the March pogrom designed to wipe out an of rusive Hindu minority and seed a loyal Moslem middle class, the military leaders hoped they could create a province loyal to be whims of the western, almost entirely Moslem, portion of the nation. In democratic elections held the previous December the people of East Pakistan had cast ballots over whelmingly in favor of a regional parts...
...sugar, shots of insulin, the hormone that helps metabolize sugar. Excess insulin would have dropped her blood sugar dangerously low. Sunny was hospitalized for a few days the first time and permanently the second; she is now in the Harkness Pavilion at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. The seed of scandal was planted when Sunny's maid of 23 years, Maria Schrallhammer, approached Annie-Laurie and Alexander with suspicions of foul play. The children retained an attorney, and he in turn pressed for the official investigation that resulted in Von Bülow's indictment. Among...
...different than those of the men who stood at the schoolhouse doors 20 years ago and said Black students would never set foor inside their schools; the President's smiling face and amiable manner should not confuse the issue. Protests over the integration of schools and universities were the seed from which the civil rights movement grew and provided some of the proudest successes in three decades of domestic strife. Some optimists might have thought that the eighties were to be a time for the nation to address some of the economic injustice that the first stage of the civil...
...English language makes it easy to go to places like "pieces" without making a move. Through the miracle of English, a man can "go to pieces," "go to pot," "go to seed," and "go to the dogs" simply by sitting in a deep chair with a bottle...