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Word: third (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third set went back and forth as Pompan pulled ahead 3-1 and then dropped three straight games. Rapidly, the two team leaders traded games to 6-6 before the critical tie-breaker...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Crimson Netmen Crush Quakers, 7-2 | 4/21/1979 | See Source »

Penn's number one tennis player. Murray Robinson, couldn't believe--or perhaps didn't want to believe--that the Crimson's Don Pompan had reached the ball before it bounced twice. Robinson knew that with the score at 4-2 in favor of Pompan in a third-set tie-breaker he had lost his grip on a match that he had begun by taking the first...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Crimson Netmen Crush Quakers, 7-2 | 4/21/1979 | See Source »

Boston College prevented a shutout when Julie Hanavan and Michelle DiCarlo surged ahead of Harvard's faltering Deirdre Wilde and Meg Meyer in an agonizing, third-set tiebreaker to take the third doubles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netwomen Shell B.C., 8-1 | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

Predun, who earned third-team All-American and second-team All-Ivy status as a sophomore, was leading the Crimson with scoring with 18 goals and 12 assists after Saturday's contest. The injury occured as a result of a late hit by Bruin goalkeeper Charlie Meister, who was penalized on the play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Predun Injured | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

...begins a crucial section of leading Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes' latest novel, The Hydra Head. Billed as the first Third World spy thriller," The Hydra Head is about the loss of identity of Felix Maldonado, a minor bureaucrat in the Mexican government. In a Kafka-esque world in which he has no autonomy, Maldonado becomes an unwilling assassin in an international spy network competing over Mexico's newly discovered oil supply...

Author: By Judith E. Matloff, | Title: The Day of the Hydra | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

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