Word: staved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's other hopefuls are freestylers Stave Krause, Dave Powlison, Toby Gerhart, and Mike Cahalan. All four have been outstanding this season, and if the Elis should for some reason not be mentally up for the meet, a couple of them might net firsts...
...dived into the oily swells for fish, most never to surface alive. All along the mucky shoreline, birds lay dead or dying, unable to raise their oil-soaked feathers. Survivors were rushed to one or three centers nearby to be cleaned in a chemical solution, then carefully wrapped to stave off pneumonia and placed in warm pens to recover. Of the more than 500 birds brought in by week's end, two-thirds had survived. The fouled waters threatened thousands of rookeries on the Santa Barbara Islands, haven for the sea elephant, the Guadalupe fur seal (once thought extinct...
...Crimson held B.C. scoreless in the first period, but they could not stave off B.C.'s rushes in the second period and they allowed three goals...
Scared to Speak. If complacency has helped to stave off 20th century safety precautions underground, economics has been an even more formidable barrier...
...foregoing cheap sentiment is designed to stave off consideration of the actual event. Max Adrian is an ingratiating performer and a hardworking actor, and his night of Shavian lore (mostly letters and autobiographical fragments) really works. If it does not, on the other hand, make Shaw's presence a more vivid one, it is because the subject's real life was as a writer rather than a personality, a writer sufficiently great that his prose truly outshone his person. Under these circumstances, it is inevitable that a portrayal will seem to diminish Shaw's stature as much as it throws...