Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Glenn Fine, Harvard's explosive playmaker, and Bob Allen, a promising sophomore swing man who was the game's leading scorer with 18 points, began the Harvard surge. Fine drove through, around and under UConn's larger, slower men to spark the Crimson in the game's opening minutes. Allen then took over, hitting short jumpers and free throws to put Harvard up 21-13 midway through the first half...
Split among liberal-independent lines, with acting-mayor Vellucci reported to be the swing vote, the council has failed in two consecutive weeks, and nine ballots to give any one councilor the needed five votes...
...Harvard hockey team enjoyed a successful western swing over the holidays, going 2-1, getting more consistency from its performers, and earning the respect of non-ECAC competition. Meanwhile, the fans back East, oblivious to all this, still remember the icemen as the team that lost, 7-0, to Boston College on December...
...does not feel he can abandon his review of undergraduate education "at this time." In a rare show of solidarity, the council unanimously selects the giant recombinant clam as the new mayor, after the clam promises to continue former Mayor Vellucci's practices of "keeping Harvard on its toes," "swing voting, and pastadigition...
...Evangelicals: in concentrating on personal salvation, the convert tends to grow safe in his inner consolation, lapsing into passive acceptance of the evils of the outside world. Critics like Coffin tend to see the resurgence of Evangelicalism as one more sign of a self-preoccupied and self-serving national swing toward conservatism in general. The argument is that the outward-looking reformist '60s have regressed into the selfish '70s. The charge has some merit. But there is also much to the Evangelical theory that a man must dramatically change his life and values before he can begin to affect things...