Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Golden Knights of Clarkson bring two big lines, four bigger defensemen, and an adequate goalie against the Crimson in tonight's semifinal E.C.A.C. contest at the Boston arena. With the Eastern hockey crown at stake, the Crimson will need stellar play from all concerned to top the slightly-favored skaters from Potsdam, New York...
...done. For a proper understanding of the Oresteia not one strophe of those choric odes can be left out. From the plot action alone, the audience might suppose itself to be watching a rather unpleasant melodrama. The poet is intent that we know what profound issues are at stake. These odes are further remarkable in that they presuppose an Athenian audience able to grasp their content at a first hearing. If, not what would have been the point of composing them...
Both individual and team titles are at stake at West Point this weekend. In the individual contest, eyes are on Howe and Niederhoffer, third and fourth ranking squash players in the country. Niederhoffer is out to get the debonair Yalieafter Howe edged him 3-2 at Hemenway last Wednesday...
...Stake in Space. Southern Baptist Beck, who was a World War II B-29 pilot and joined Ford in 1949 as a financial analyst, makes all day-to-day decisions on his own, deferring to Detroit only on major policy matters. He describes himself as "a road-map man," has charted a route to bring Philco to better things within the next five years. Though the figures are buried within Ford's annual report, Philco probably underwent a slight sales dip last year to about $375 million, made no profit. Wealthy Ford is obviously more interested in Philco...
...Western Europe is compared to the "new" nations, with regard to their roles in the Cold War, a striking similarity emerges. The struggle between the two monsters is not a European or an Asian struggle; Europe is a stake, not a participant...