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Word: strongpoints (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always, diving was a Crimson strongpoint. Senior ace Steve Schramm assured himself of a place in the March NCAA qualifying meet by winning the one-meter event with 300 points, his second consecutive total over the 290-point entry standard...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Lundberg and Crimson Fleet Sink Naval Academy, 72-41 | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...trio of Milt Yasunaga (126 lbs.), Bill Mulvihill (134 lbs.) and George Baker (142 lbs.) has been Harvard's strongpoint recently, and Dave Albert (118 lbs.) was coming off his first win of the year. As it turned out, however, Harvard could do no better than split these first four crucial contests...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Matmen Bow to UMass; Fail to Build Early Lead | 1/22/1976 | See Source »

...rich Chinese sausage so exquisitely prepared that travelers carry it back to Hong Kong as gifts for friends. It was a calm, bucolic village untouched by war. Now the sausage shop is gone, a few gun emplacements and foxholes testifying to its brief, final existence as a strongpoint. In the rear of the shop are charred remains of sausage meat, roasted black by fire. Soldiers and townspeople report a fierce battle, with bombing and plenty of mortar and artillery fire. The untidy debris of war is everywhere: mortar fragments, rifle clips, hand-grenade cartons, an entrenching tool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Weeping in Fear at the River | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

...mile always seems to shape up as a wide open affair at Big Three meets and this year is no exception. Both Yale and Princeton have sub-4:10 milers to challenge the favorite, Harvard's John Quirk. The 600, however, should be a Crimson strongpoint with Nick Leone coming off a very fast 1:09.9 GBC win, and only a two man entry rule preventing a possible Harvard sweep...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Crimson Thinclads Favored in Big Three Tilt; Tigers Are Primary Threat in Meet at Yale | 2/17/1973 | See Source »

...best coach possible." The sentiment expressed in numerous quarters was "Benn's a great guy but not a great coach." c) "We wanted a coach who understood the Harvard system and its philosophy, approved of it, and would fit harmoniously in it." Here appeared to be Benn's strongpoint, but if the Harvard system was to produce 2-5 teams in the Eastern league, there was feeling that the system could use a little revamping...

Author: By Raymond A. Urban, | Title: The New Math--Or Harvard Chooses a Coach | 3/21/1972 | See Source »

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