Word: splits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came not on the Suez front but on the Nile River, deep in Egypt's heartland. By the light of a nearly full moon, a band of airborne Israeli commandos penetrated farther into enemy territory (140 miles) than they had ventured even during the war. Then the force split into three groups. One squad assaulted the bridge at Qena (pop. 40,000), a $5,000,000 span completed only this year. Another attacked the bridge-dam at Nag Hammadi (pop. 20,000), whose lock controls the flow of water for irrigating upper-valley sugarcane fields. The third...
...curtailment of the Cleaver course amounted to a politically motivated interference with academic freedom. Uni-versity administrators feared a worse disruption than in 1964. Several thousand aroused students attended a meeting to organize a protest movement. Opposed to any strong central authority, even in their own cause, they split into small groups, and their organizational meetings degenerated into bickering over goals and tactics. The rebels might have been able to marshal more support if they had faced an unreceptive administration. But Heyns readily agreed to meet with the protesters and expressed his concern about the regents' anti-Cleaver decision...
Harvard must defeat Brown at the Stadium tomorrow if the Harvard-Yale game is to feature two unbeaten teams for the first time since 1909. Brown's chances of upsetting the Crimson will largely depend on split end Greg Kontos, halfback Tom Lemire, and quarterback Bryan Marini...
...accomplices all die, and the cop becomes a hero. As for good old Jimmy Brown, he is about to escape with his share, when he is called-symbolically-by the voice of the dead Diahann, summoning him-symbolically-to hell. And there, as they say in professional football, The Split ends...
Linebacking coach Ralp Jelic, however, points out that certain adjustments must be made. The entire defensive line must shift towards the strong side of the Princeton line. The Tigers also often double-team on blocking, and to combat this, Harvard can stack men in the seams or try to split the double team. By jumping around from one spot to another, the Crimson's linebackers can foul up these blocks...