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Word: sextons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spokesman John Smith denied that his company was pressuring the FTC. John Sexton, a third-year law student who used to run one of the country's most successful test preparation centers, said yesterday the FTC was unlikely to pressure ETS. "With the people they have at the FTC now, I think any attempts at pressure would be counterproductive," Sexton said...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Release of Report on Testing Would Contradict ETS Claims | 12/7/1978 | See Source »

Coach Harry Parker's heavyweight crew made a mockery of the 100th running of the Sexton Cup on the Thames River with a crushing 3 1/2-length victory over Yale in New London on June 10th. The victory salvaged a rocky campaign for the Harvard heavies and revenged the Crimson's Eastern Sprint loss to the Bulldogs last...

Author: By Jon Ledecky, | Title: Heavyweights Salvage Season | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...Harvard-Yale race for the Sexton Cup, first rowed in 1852, is the oldest intercollegiate athletic event, and the Crimson has pride as well as tradition to uphold. Harvard holds a 65-47 edge in the series, but Yale's upset triumph in the Sprints casts a show on the Crimson hopes...

Author: By Elizabeth N. Friese, | Title: Coming Attractions: Crew Races and NCAA Track | 5/31/1978 | See Source »

...play began, the director called out instructions over my head to a stage-manager, concerning when to lower the lights, cue the actors, that sort of thing. There were less than 20 people in the audience, and the most vociferous of them departed after hooting and cheering for the sexton with a toothache, Jeff Woolf (who seemed so pleased with his performance and his fans that he could barely keep a straight face). Throughout the evening, people drifted in and out of the Lehman Hall cafeteria. Three girls taking tickets in the hall chattered and giggled for a while after...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: In Need of Surgery | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

NONFICTION: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters, edited by Linda Gray Sexton and Lois Ames Coming into the Country, John McPhee Delmore Schwartz, James Atlas The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie Dispatches, Michael Herr Best Sellers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books, Dec. 19, 1977 | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

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