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...like the old days when you make up a game in the playground," Harvard coach Tom Sanders said after the loss at Penn's Palestra. "You walk over and out comes the seven-foot dude, and you say, 'Hey, wait a minute, he wasn't with you when you set this game...

Author: By James Cramer, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Owls Edge Crimson Five In Quaker Hoop Tourney | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

...pair of Land Rovers screeched up to the front gate of the four-story embassy villa. One rammed a limousine waiting for Noel. Seven men leaped out firing automatic weapons at random. The departing diplomats scurried for cover. "Run, run, run for your life!" shouted the Dutch charge d'affaires. Some, including the Russian and British ambassadors, managed to escape. The French ambassador got away by scaling a seven-foot garden wall. The Papal Nuncio in Khartoum slipped out a side gate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISM: The Killers of Khartoum | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

...much faster team than lasts year's 13-8 squad, outplayed the Crimson at times, picking up the only goal on a nice play. The Bruins' Ray Tiernan gave the Brown band a little hope at 4:51, ruining Harvard goalie Joe Bertagna's shut-out with a seven-foot flip shot...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Sluggish Hockey Team Coasts by Bruins, 3-1 | 1/6/1972 | See Source »

...minor decoration of the original volume, unhappily left out in the re-edition, were Auden's hit-or-miss photographs. Its principal treasure was and is his long poem, Letter to Lord Byron. Few poets since Byron have tried to crack the great romantic's seven-foot whip, and only Auden among Englishmen has succeeded, as here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Putting Time on Ice | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

...Mayor Unmoved. While the mayor and police chief championed the status quo, Vigo County Sheriff Clyde Lovellette acted like an old-fashioned lawman. Sending ahead deputies to "collect evidence," the new seven-foot sheriff raided three Tenderloin houses and arrested nine women. All pleaded guilty and were each sentenced to 15 days in jail. Spurred by the raid and a petition signed by 400 citizens, the city council unanimously urged police to "sincerely attempt" to eliminate vice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indiana: Open House in Terre Haute | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

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