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Word: switches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Their quickness hurt us," McLaughlin said, "We knew we couldn't extend the defense against them, but we felt we wanted to try and extend it." It didn't work, so McLaughlin made the switch to a half court man-to-man defense early in the second half. That seemed to click as the cagers held the Portuguese to just 31 points in the final 20 minutes...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Hoopsters Crunch Portuguese | 11/21/1980 | See Source »

Erulkar hasn't been playing goal for all of his sixteen years of soccer experience. Until his junior year in a Philadelphia high school, in fact, he was a halfback, and only made the switch because his school's regular goalie left the team...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: A Soccer Goalie's Lonely Life | 11/20/1980 | See Source »

...make much difference to the juniors and seniors but the incoming sophomores will have to get used to one master and then have to switch on Bott's return," Pavan Linardes '81, a Dunster House committee member said yesterday...

Author: By Janet F. Fifer, | Title: Tate Will Serve As Acting Master Of Dunster House | 11/20/1980 | See Source »

...When Marine Corporal William Gallegos was interviewed by NBC last December he expressed sympathy for the Iranian revolutionaries; this aroused some suspicions that the hostages may have been subjected to brainwashing, perhaps of the sort employed by the North Koreans against American P.O.W.s, as became evident after Operation Big Switch in 1953, when 3,313 U.S. prisoners were returned. Most experts, however, doubt that the Iranian militants have resorted to systematic brainwashing. What has probably happened, at least with some of the hostages, is a degree of identification with their captors-a temporary reaction often referred to as the "Stockholm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Smoothing the Way | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...several years, the Faculty were active and our activities were expanding, but now the budget is tight and we can only maintain our current programs," Keen said, adding, "We will gladly switch to the CfIA--the only hitch is, where is the money going to come from...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: CUE Suggests Elimination Of Interdisciplinary Group | 11/7/1980 | See Source »

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