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Ticknor and fullbacks Linda Tuck and Elien Sears held the fort against repeated attacks by Crimson forwards Kelly Landry and Alicia Carillon. Finally, with 18:01 left in regulation. Laundry a lammed home a shot from close range...

Author: By Jim Silver, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Boaters Falter, 2-1; Big Green Wins in OT | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

...through the air at 80 m.p.h., reaction time is measured in milli seconds. "If it's a triple somersault, Mi guel can feel if he's going too fast," explains Juan, 32. "He can relax and slow down. If he's going too slowly, he can tuck up tighter and complete the third somer sault faster." The quadruple, by contrast, allows no such mid-course adjustment; once the flyer has released the bar and tucked himself up for the first of four turns, he is spinning too fast to correct himself. The burden of timing rests with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: They Caught the Quad! | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

...Football Coach] Joe Restic has to tuck in every member of the team each night, I'm switching to Yale. At least there they dreamed up "the fantastic tuck," remember? Two beautiful coeds plus champagne for each guy. What...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Restic Saga | 7/16/1982 | See Source »

...social philosophy ("Nostalgia is fueled by inflation"). Trillin finds that American satirists live in "constant danger of being blindsided by the truth." His twofold defense against that danger: to reduce large questions to the microscopic (President Reagan named as his Surgeon General a doctor once known as "the Tummy Tuck King of Palm Beach") and to enlarge the trivial to the grotesque ("Am I the only person who favors a law mandating life imprisonment for anyone who performs in public as a mime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

...Tuck...

Author: By Marco L. Qucazzo, | Title: Baseball Takes Two From Dartmouth Ends Year Tied For Third in EIBL | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

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