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...Harvard softball team swept a doubleheader from Mt. Holycke Saturday, and proved that it has the depth and the spunk to win even without strong pitching...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Batswomen Take Two | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...demonstrated two years ago in Plenty, playing another man of propriety married to a disturbed idealist. Covington, Tyzack and Haig (imported from the Royal Court Theater in London, where Tom and Viv was first produced last year) perform admirably in better roles, ones with a little shading, irony and spunk. Max Stafford- Clark's direction fills the stage at Manhattan's Public Theater with mausoleum air and anguished pauses: if this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Jeeves Vs. Zelda Tom and Viv | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...final reflects that Husky expertise, but it can't reflect the Crimson spunk...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Harvard Falls to Northeastern, 8-2 In Women's Beanpot Opener | 2/6/1985 | See Source »

...Harvard offense seemed to lose its spunk in the third quarter, while Ricoh and his favorite running back, Chuck Goldbach, began to gain some yards...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer, | Title: Q-Manoids Capture Harvard-Yale Crown, Triumph Over Saybrook/Trumbull, 28-14 | 11/17/1984 | See Source »

Perhaps the only thing more faithful than the good old Army Jeep was its good old name, which seemed to capture the spunk of that sprightly warhorse. Now the Pentagon plans to change both with a sometimes klutzy replacement burdened by a certainly klutzy name: the High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV). The manufacturer, AM General Corp., calls it the Hummer. No way, says the Army: that rhymes with bummer. It prefers "the HummVee," hardly a name likely to catch on with the average grunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: A Jeep by Any Other Name | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

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