Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offense." When Fanny's marriage failed, her father decreed that if she and her three children were to inherit his fortune, they must promise never to return to Europe to live or marry Europeans. Fortunately for Prince Charles, Edmund Maurice Burke Roche, the elder of Fanny's twin sons, defied his grandfather and returned to Britain to claim the Fermoy title. His marriage, to Scotswoman Ruth Sylvia Gill, produced Frances Ruth Burke Roche. And her marriage to Edward John Spencer, which ended in divorce in 1969, produced Lady Diana Spencer, the United Kingdom's one-eighth American...
...sacrifice. Harvard catcher Joe Wark had snuffed out a Columbia rally. With runers on first and second and nobody out in the fifth, Hal Robertson bounced a best off the plate, that Wark barehanded and threw Danny Skaff at third, Skaff relayed to first for the 2-5-3 twin killing...
Nahigian has picked his second and third starters, Billy Doyle and Greg Brown, for tomorrow's twin bill. Both have looked good and bad, so the high earned-run averages (5.82, 5.14) are somewhat misleading. Then again, the figures are a good indication that last year's pitching consistency hasn't yet returned. Doyle has been hit hard (25 safeties in 20 innings); both have been hurt by walks...
Carroll Lowenstein and co-captain Chip Raffi led the Harvard scoring with twin 79s in the team's first match since returning from more favorable playing conditions in Puerto Rico over spring break...
...dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens asked, "Would a rational parent making rules for the conduct of twin children of opposite sex simultaneously forbid the son and authorize the daughter to engage in conduct that is especially harmful to the daughter...