Word: semis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loss will mean fourth seed in the ECAC's and barring upsets, the unenviable job of playing first seed B. U. in the semi finals. A win will mean third seed and the chance to play second-ranked Clarkson, a team Harvard has already beaten once, in the semis. And a win in the semis means a trip to the NCAA...
...public, the names of the outlaw or semi-outlaw motorcycle clubs is a litany of imps in the pit, from the Animals, and Axemen, through the Equalizers and Exterminators, the Marauders and Mongols, the Raiders, and Road Vultures, to the Warlocks and Wheels of Soul. The unsavory names with which these gangs have christened themselves are apt to make the public forget that their collective membership is probably no more than 3,000, the merest fraction of the 3,000,000 people who regularly ride bikes in the U.S. In fact, these "outlaws" on the road are infinitely less...
...issue, however, the fedayeen seemed united. When the semi-official Cairo newspaper Al Ahram claimed that the guerrillas "unanimously" supported efforts by Egypt and Jordan to achieve a settlement with Israel, the major fedayeen organizations brusquely denied the story. Fedayeen spokesmen agreed that if the Arab governments wanted to negotiate with Israel to recover their lost territories, they would have no objection -as long as the negotiations did not impinge on Palestinian rights...
...German civilian: "Shall I ever deserve pardon? . . . Can I ever forget?" But his real peer group then-and now -is that absolutely disciplined iron man, the German soldier. As an Alsatian (he even wrote his memoir in French), he admires with the special fervor of the semi-outsider...
...said the chemicals were intended to act only as defoliants, not killing the plants. But they have acted as herbicides instead, inflicting "semi-permanent" harm on plant growth, he added...