Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Having shed a five-game winless streak on Tuesday night, the Crimson cagers will seek to bring home all the beans when they oppose a favored Boston College squad in the finals of the Beanpot Classic tonight...
...ticket manager. Page is sometimes able to help desperate sportswriters and alumni, and when he does, he often gets gifts of whiskey at Christmas in gratiude. Page does not drink, so he sells the liquor to the Varsity Club, and recently he used his earnings to build a tool shed at his Bedford house, a few blocks from where Matthews lives...
Though peace is the traditional hope of the New Year, prospects for 1975 are not encouraging. Across four continents there are battlefields on which blood is being shed because of rebel movements, border disputes, terrorist action and full-scale national conflicts. The new year is likely to be bloodier than the old. Among the most serious trouble spots...
...Identity. Stonehouse did not explain what he meant by blackmail; but whatever "this business" was, it had certainly not been an instant brainstorm. Stonehouse's plans to shed his problems by adopting a new identity were laid well before his trip to Miami last November. First he telephoned hospitals looking for a dead person about his own age with no relatives; finding one Joseph Arthur Markham, Stonehouse obtained the latter's birth certificate and got a passport. Then, after his vanishing act in Miami, he flew to Melbourne, arriving on Nov. 27. The next day he left...
...past 22 years will be entirely complete without this account by the man who operated so long at its stormy center. Larry O'Brien is one of the most decent men in a profession currently held in low esteem; he is also a tough Irishman who has shed more tears in joy and sorrow than ought to be allotted any single lifetime in politics...