Word: units
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like that one would make between a fast boat and a fast friend. In a situation like a mixed eight, where men and women are not separate, but not equal either, what standard of "athletic" can apply to the team? Can a mixed eight ever work as a consistent unit, a sort of Sprite "limon" of rowing? Or can it only be understood as a fun Halloween horse costume, which is a unit through the strength of its cloth only...
...Harvard defense, realizing that its turnover-forcing efforts of the first half (Dartmouth coughed up the ball three times) would not go unrewarded, gave the ball back to the offense two and a half minutes later at their own 26, and watched the born-again unit make believers out of everyone...
Once enlisted, these unfit Marines constitute a new class of military untouchables. The U.S. Court of Military Appeals has ruled that a fraudulently recruited serviceman cannot be court-martialed. Thus the Marines had to drop a case against an enlisted man who was charged with stealing TNT from his unit at the Marine Corps Air Station in Kaneohe, Hawaii, because his recruiter had forged his high school diploma and concealed his juvenile crime record to qualify him for service...
...live to be 100," he replied: "Why do you want to set limits on Divine Providence?") Even so, the health factor swiftly eliminated one attractive candidate, Brazil's Aloisio Lorscheider, 54, who had just spent two or three days in a hospital intensive-care unit for what was reported to be a third flare-up of heart trouble in three months. Aides later said he was simply suffering from exhaustion. Lorscheider, who underwent heart surgery two years ago, was well enough to make the trip to Rome, however, and will play an important role in the large, if ideologically...
William J. Kennedy, president of the striking pressmen's union, said the principles of agreement preserve the "unit manning concept," under which the publishers agree to employ a certain number of pressmen for each press unit...