Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...understand the significance of today's match, you must step back a year in time. Yale tooled into Cambridge on April 25 of last year, cocky and hoping to knock off Harvard's unbeaten racquetmen, who were looking toward a repeat performance as league title-holder...
...first ominous step-up in the war of nerves had come over the previous weekend in a message from the terrorists announcing that Moro had been sentenced to death following his "people's trial." The following Tuesday police found the first Communiqué No. 7. In a mocking reference to West Germany's announcement last fall that three jailed terrorists had committed suicide in their cells, the message said Moro had been executed by "suicide," which "must not be only a prerogative of the Baader-Meinhof group." It went on to say that Moro's body could...
...pair that Neumann, 28, and Marimow, 30, evoke in their youth, dedication and hand-in-glove collaborative ease. They even had a "Deep Nightstick," a source with close ties to the police department who nudged their investigations in the right direction. Neumann and Marimow's first major step was obtaining from court administrators a rundown of pretrial hearings in 433 Philadelphia homicide cases between 1974 and 1977. To their surprise, statements or confessions had been thrown out because of illegal interrogation in 80 of the cases, but no action had been taken against the cops. To check...
...core of Monet's achievement was his sense of time. He was fascinated by the discontinuous nature of reality: by the fact that, as a Greek sophist put it, you cannot step into the same river once, for it changes as the foot enters. Monet's Giverny paintings make up the most sustained and intelligent meditation on transience by a great artist since-what? Leonardo's water drawings? Probably, for although Monet's fellow impressionists also predicated their images on the moment, none of them was able to go so far in the direction of displaying...
Felske commented that the Seven Sisters Tournament may be replaced by an Ivy League round-robin for next year. "We really need to take this step," Felske said. "Right now there is not really an Ivy League championship since Princeton and Yale do not attend the Seven Sisters," he added...