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Word: slates (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hands, the white room seemed clinical, even institutional. So we swabbed it with mops and a great grey steel pail, periodically cleaning the mops under the shower, or shattering the besotted silence of the entry by opening the door and heaving great bags of the detritus out onto the slate. We were too exhausted to finish. Another roommate had stopped briefly to help, but he was too drunk and had begun a crazy sort of dance with the mop, ineffectually smearing the stains into broad brown arcs...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: No Deposit, No Return | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

Boyle is now serving three consecutive life terms for first degree murder, and indeed, all the principals of the Yablonski case are now behind bars. In 1972, the Miners For Democracy (MFD) slate of Arnold Miller, Mike Trbovich, and Harry Patrick assumed office, and attempted to give the UMWA back to its membership. They sold the union's Cadillacs, are attempting to sell the union's Washington, D.C. bank, and have made plans to move headquarters to the coalfields from Washington. Chip Yablonski, the murdered leader's son, became union counsel. And the union's safety division now has over...

Author: By Joe Dalton, | Title: The Yablonski Legacy | 3/20/1976 | See Source »

...hoopsters' season left something to be desired, as they split games with perennial Ivy League doormats Columbia, Cornell, and Yale, while winning just five other contests outside the conference for an 8-18 overall slate. The squad placed dead-last in the Ivy league with a 3-11 mark...

Author: By William Scheft, | Title: Hill Will Lead Next Year's Cagers... | 3/17/1976 | See Source »

...Wolfpack bolted to a 22-point lead, 54-32, early in the second half, behind the torrid shooting of Al Green and all-American Kenny Carr. Green laced 23 points to lead the Pack, which now sports a 20-8 slate for the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: N.C. State Nails 'Cross, 78-68 | 3/16/1976 | See Source »

...this is the ECAC tournament, right? And everyone knows that you throw away the regular-season records for this one. So while we're at it, we might as well forget Harvard's 1-6 ECAC playoff slate against Boston University...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: B.U.-Harvard: Once More With Feeling | 3/12/1976 | See Source »

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