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Word: turnings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When you come back and tie it up, you got to hope you can turn it around," junior Peter Ciavaglia said. "Colgate's a good team, and it's a mark of a good team to be able to come back like that...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Icemen Get Raided by Colgate | 12/2/1989 | See Source »

...incessant arguments between Boesman and Lena begin almost immediately. Alone and homeless, as in the past, they turn on one another in anger and despair. Some of the verbal attacks are faintly amusing but can inspire no more than a nervous laugh from the audience...

Author: By Liza M. Velazquez, | Title: A World Apart | 12/1/1989 | See Source »

Robert V. Travers, a traffic attendent atHarvard for 27 years, said that when the gate wasopen in the past, there often was a build-up ofexhaust fumes from trucks driving up to thelibrary. Furthermore, officials found that trucksentering the gate had to make a tight turn...

Author: By Erik M. Weitzman, | Title: Yard Gets New Main Auto, Truck Entrance | 11/29/1989 | See Source »

COCA is not trying to change any specific University policy. The point of the sort of activism the group has been carrying out is to make politics come alive for Harvard students--to turn a seemingly abstract, removed, "Third World" situation into something relevant, emotional, and real...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: A Defense of COCA's "Shock Activism" | 11/28/1989 | See Source »

...libretto depends too heavily on whether the industrialist will turn crooked to save his neck (anyone can see he will) and on a love match between the baron and the ballerina that ends almost before it has begun. Director- choreographer Tommy Tune provides a pretentious last-minutes ballet between characters introduced as love and death. Despite these shortcomings, Grand Hotel is the musical winner of the season, bringing to mind, if not quite matching, the kinetic narratives of Harold Prince, Bob Fosse and Michael Bennett in their heyday. Tune takes a set more cluttered than Threepenny's -- fluted columns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Warmed Over and Not So Hot | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

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