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...land slide when he knocked in a loose puck with just 1:51 gone. Center Neil Shea made the most of a pass behind the Crimson defense to make it 2-0 less than three minutes later, and Rob Monleon's shot ricocheted off McEvoy's glove into the twine just two minutes after that...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Icemen Collapse at B.C. in 10-4 Rout; Eagles Bury Crimson in First Period | 1/5/1983 | See Source »

...flavored toothpaste, pineapple peelers, electronic potato parers, pear trees, frozen pheasants, silver stirrups, golden everything, robot chess partners, posters, potholders, the world's plumpest peanuts, jelly beans, ice cream machines, pushbutton card shufflers, 30 types of angel fish, fat-farm vacations, exquisite tools, 2,250-ft. balls of twine, doormats, decanters and dark glasses for dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catalogue Cornucopia | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

This sort of vehement class consciousness is only one of the likely manifestations of designer underwear's invasion of our society. We can also expect to see the rites of courtship and seduction radically altered, as the mamba dancers of sex and class twine in ever more perverse ways. Women will use the new class markers to find themselves suitable mates and lovers. For instance, in "fast" cultural sub-groups we might expect to find men sidling up to women at bars and, instead of buying them drinks and flashing large billfolds, performing quick pirouettes followed by a hiking...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Semper Ubi Sub Ubi | 9/28/1982 | See Source »

Like MacMillan, Maureen Finn and Francessa Den Hartog also had no trouble finding Bulldog twine all day king as they contributed five goals and three goals respectively in Saturday's grudge match...

Author: By John Beilenson, | Title: Laxwomen Capture Easterns, Look to National Tournament | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

...that was all the offense Brown could muster in the first half as Harvard came up with six unanswered twine-twitchers, including two from big gun Francesca Den Hartog (six goals on the day) and a brilliant Ann MacMillan score that came off six straight stick-to-stick passes...

Author: By John Beilenson, | Title: Laxwomen Bomb Bruins Into Ice Age | 4/22/1982 | See Source »

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