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Word: uris (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...URI was on the defensive from the opening faceoff, as Harvard poured in three goals in the first minute of play. By the end of the first half, Harvard held a 17-goal lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laxmen Crush URI Ten, 20-0 | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

Junior Joe Walker played in the nets for Harvard in the first half before Bob Coplan replaced him to make the only Crimson save of the game. URI's Bob Caluori stopped 13 out of 33 shots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laxmen Crush URI Ten, 20-0 | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

Brown does have good halfbacks in Gary Bonner and Tom Spotts, both former high school All-Americans, but its quarterbacking is non-existent. The defense was a wet noodle against URI...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Crimson Ivy League Football Preview | 10/1/1971 | See Source »

Brown has a losing series record against every team it plays except URI, and Rhode Island didn't score a point during the first 17 years of the series...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Both Teams Hampered by Injuries Harvard Favored to Beat Brown; | 11/14/1970 | See Source »

...Israelis have the edge in pilot skill, plane performance and radar- and radio-control systems. That has bred in them a measure of cockiness and that hard-to-define quality known as chutzpa, or sheer gall. Colonel Uri Yarom, an Israeli helicopter pilot, once gave a classic demonstration of chutzpa when he was dispatched to evacuate an injured sailor from an Israeli freighter in the Mediterranean. Yarom's gas ran low before he could find the freighter; noticing that U.S. helicopters were landing aboard the 40,000-ton Sixth Fleet carrier Wasp, Yarom followed them onto the deck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Israel and Its Enemies | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

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