Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have not yet used my vocal cords today.") Also, like Mendel, McClintock received little attention for her efforts throughout most of her career. Her principal discovery was both complex and heretical: genes, she claimed, are not fixed on the chromosome like so many pearls on a string; they can move around in an unpredictable fashion. The trouble was that she announced this back in 1951, and as one Nobel committee member noted last week, "only about five geneticists in the world could appreciate...
...York police last night arrested a young con artist whose year-long trail of deception took him through a string of Harvard dormitories and who apparently secured over night visits at several Manhattan apartments by posing as a Harvard student...
That's when the back line of Hardington, sweeper Johan Ahr, and fullbacks Marty Sabelli and Matt Cameron really went to work. Sensing the increased threat on the Harvard net, they played solid team defense, denying the visitors from Hanover the opportunity to string together any sustained offensive passing...
...children living in the Houses now, from Jonathan Flick in sweats, with his keys on a string around his neck, looking like any other student playing on the Quad, to Jessica Dowling in purple tights and a denim skirt, seem more mature than other children their age. The younger ones are unusually chatty, but without exception, the children their age. The younger ones are unusually chatty, but without exception, the children come across as very bright and self-sufficient...
Harvard suffered its first Ivy loss of the year at the hands of the Green in 1980. '81 and '82. Last year's defeat was probably the most excruciating for the Crimson. Greeted with the most hostile New Hampshire weather imaginable, Harvard struggled to stay close with its third-string quarterback (the others were hurt), was burned on a 68-yard bomb for a TD (the longest pass in the 86-game history of the series) and finally lost, 14-12, when a two-point conversion attempt after a Crimson touchdown failed with three minutes left...