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Word: stripping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bouts, Harvard leading the last bout 4-1, the meet tied 55-55 in touches. Thirty seconds left, 25...20...15...10.... Cooper beats Mejias's blade down, lunges forward, touches her in the underarm. Harvard takes the match by one touch, the Harvard fencers stream onto the strip cheering frantically, joy abounds...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Women Fencers Nick Brandeis by Single Touch | 3/1/1978 | See Source »

...movements after he returned to the U.S., the book is less persuasive in implying that he remained a KGB informant. It cites his temporary employment at a typesetting company in Dallas, where he gained access to Soviet and Cuban place names that the U.S. Army had contracted to strip into classified maps. The only KGB contact suggested in the book is the mysterious oil geologist George de Mohrenschildt, who befriended the Oswalds in the Dallas area. He is portrayed as exaggerating the Oswalds' marital problems in order to provide a reason for Oswald to move away from Marina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Was Lee Oswald a Soviet Spy? | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

Cooper had one 5-4 loss, to Yale's Jennifer Albert in her second bout. Distracted by some controversy on the nearby men's strip over a particular call, Cooper's concentration wavered and Albert took advantage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bulldog Fencers Bathe New Haven in Crimson Blood | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

Weiner is nonetheless confident: "If a strong effort is made, we can win." The idea's biggest selling point may be that gambling would be limited to a strip of about 20 miles along Florida's Gold Coast -where the hotelmen and others in a once lucrative tourist market see legalized gambling as their last resort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: High Stakes in Miami Beach | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...entire Harvard team seemed to soak up Gillette's adrenalin and captain John Chipman next went on the strip, beating Dan Anthony, 5-4 by catching him with a running lunge and touching him just before he went off the edge of the strip...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Crimson Fencers Bloodied by Tigers, 18-9 | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

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