Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When John Shattuck settles into his Massachusetts Hall office this summer, he'll be bringing to Harvard eight years of lobbying experience and a string of accomplishments most lawmakers would envy...
Northeastern averages five goals a game, but defensive woes have kept the team in the bottom half of the East Division. Marshall's save rate and goals against average are the worst among the Beanpot teams' first-string goalies. Only Bucyk's play on a somewhat effective penalty-killing unit has kept Northeastern in several close games...
...Beanpot games haven't counted in ECAC standings since the early 1970s and coaches whose teams land in the consolation round often save their first-string players for upcoming games that do count, eliminating the possibility of fatigue and injury...
...Mather alarm comes after a recent rash of fires deliberately set at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a string of false fire alarms in Harvard Houses...
DIED. Johnny Weissmuller, 79, record-setting swimmer (five Olympic gold medals) turned cinematic Tarzan (twelve movies); in Acapulco, Mexico. "They gave me a G-string," he claimed of his MGM bosses, "and said, 'Can you climb a tree?'" Weissmuller, the archetypal Hollywood hunk, led an extravagantly untidy personal life highlighted by five failed marriages and a portfolio of foolish business ventures...