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Word: supers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's decisive 8-4 win over the highly-regarded New Hampshire at Walter Brown Arena last night was mere off-Broadway compared to the virtuoso performance of Hughes in the second period. The super-cool forward limboed by hapless defensemen for four goals in the second and turned a 3-0 score into a full-fledged 7-1 shocker with one stanza remaining (see story below...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Icemen Romp, 8-4 | 12/13/1978 | See Source »

James E. Jackson Jr., a member of the American Friends Service Committee and a former inmate in Walpole, speculated yesterday that the administration may be creating "a new super-maximum cell block where the men will be locked up 23 hours a day and will receive no programs and only one visitor a week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Walpole Prison Shutdown Halts PBH Volunteer Tutoring Work | 12/7/1978 | See Source »

...nutritional and food-stamp programs. Foreman has control of drafting specifications for almost all federal food purchases, including those of the Pentagon and the Veterans Administration. She has taken steps to reduce the sugar, salt and fat content of school breakfasts and lunches; proposed a regulation that would remove Super Donuts and other fortified pastries from school breakfast programs; successfully lobbied for a law banning junk food in school vending machines; helped to persuade Congress to drop requirements that food-stamp recipients pay some cash, thereby making the stamps available to 1.5 million more people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cool Carol and the Dragon Lady | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

Coach Frank McLaughlin's super-green quintet got a lesson in power basketball as they dropped a 79-65 decision to the host UMass Minutemen in the season opener here last night, but there were signs of new life in the Harvard basketball program that have not been seen in the last three years...

Author: By John Donley, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Pucksters, Cagers Get Mixed Results | 11/30/1978 | See Source »

...super-reporter is at his best describing locales and the means travelers use to get from one to another. His chronicle of a voyage in an umiak, an open skin-covered Eskimo craft, from Nome to a fragment of rock called King Island, is a masterpiece of terse narrative and clinical observation. Without wasting a diphthong, Roueche captures the look and feeling of the gray ice-choked sea, the pleasant bite of whisky and the new taste of muktuk, or whale fat: "The blubber looked like a block of cheese-pale pink cheese with a thick black rind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Journeys | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

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