Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This weekend, as the Ivies opened '79, the unexpected swiftly threw the league into turmoil. Brown, a heavy, pre-season favorite, took its first strike as the Bruins caught a severe case of blocked-punt fever and fell to the Elis, 13-12, before the loonies at the Yale Bowl...
...peaceful settlement. Now in its second week, talks on the future of Zimbabwe (Muzorewa's government has dropped the "Rhodesia" part) are mired in troubles. Admittedly, the conference got off to a shaky start; just before it got underway, the Salisbury government launched a "pre-emptive" strike against Mugabe's troops in Mozambique, blowing up fuel dumps and radar stations and killing 300. When the Salisbury representatives arrived in London, the Front delegates responded by branding Muzorewa and his associates "criminals" and refusing to shake hands or take tea with them. In return, Muzorewa declared that he would protect...
...Crimson did not say, as Brutus notes, that "the demand for an Afro Studies department came after the strike of '69." The sentence in the article reads that the department was "created in the aftermath of the Harvard strike of 1969." The article notes that the Rosovsky committee had been working on developing Afro-American Studies considerably before the strike. The department itself was voted in after the strike in April...
...Crimson inaccurately reports that the demand for an Afro Studies department came after the strike of '69. It became a strike demand because Rosovsky changed the report of his committee from recommending a department to recommending an interdisciplinary combined concentration without informing the students who worked on the committee writing the original version of the report. There was considerable pressure for a department leading up to that demand for some time. The challenge of an uncombined department is to present the perspective of two-thirds of the world's population, a perspective which other departments at Harvard have shown...
...batter would swing at it, and the ball ended up going behind him." Umpire Doug Harvey recalls: "Once Phil's catcher dived full length to his right to catch a ball that looked like it was going into the dirt, and the thing came back up across the strike zone for a called third strike, then hit me in the left shoulder...