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Word: sextet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kroks are Preppies. Individually, they may not have spent their formative years in the celebrated sextet of boarding schools, but as a whole the Kroks embody the cultural effluvium of those institutions. They have that easy-to-identify, difficult-to-define social swagger that marks them instantly as embodiments of the best and worst of the Preppie zeitgeist...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: 'Muffy, A Song For Us' | 2/14/1981 | See Source »

...Sheehy's birthday this year--Monday night--they will be attempting to win Harvard's first Beanpot championship since 1977. Sheehy and his teammates will take the ice at 8 p.m. before an expected capacity crowd at the Boston Garden, and try to knock off a Boston College sextet, the team with the fewest losses in the country (two). The festivities start at 5 p.m. with the B.U. Northeastern consolation game, and, if Harvard wins, will continue well into the night, highlighted by the traditional concert on the Red Line by the Harvard band...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Icemen Looking To Win Beanpot | 2/7/1981 | See Source »

...Monday night is as good a time as any to give this sagging hockey program the shot in the arm it so sorely needs. And it is also as good an opportunity as we're bound to get in a while to find out if Billy Cleary's Crimson sextet...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Crimson Destroys Northeastern, 10-2, In Beanpot Upset | 2/3/1981 | See Source »

DIED. Russell Procope, 72, dapper, goateed jazz clarinetist and saxophonist who was a fixture in the Duke Ellington Orchestra; in New York City. After playing with Chick Webb, Fletcher Henderson and the John Kirby Sextet, Procope joined the Duke in 1945, bringing his low, mellow sound to such Ellington compositions as 4:30 Blues and Swamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 2, 1981 | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

...struggling Providence College sextet, losers of four of its last five games, found a Crimson squad more than willing to match its dreary play, sloppy pass for sloppy pass and, on the strength of a reasonably efficient defense, dealt the icemen their fourth straight loss, 3-1, at the Bright Center last night...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Icemen Drop Fourth Straight, 3-1, to Providence | 1/15/1981 | See Source »

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