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Word: villanova (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week later the bubble burst when the Rams lost to Marquette again in the Garden by five points after the game went into overtime. In the post-season NCAA tourney Fordham lost to Villanova. The Wildcats went on to lose to UCLA in the finals, but were later declared ineligible because Howard Porter had already received money to turn professional...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Acquaintance | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

...Kent Lanahan of Villanova, Pa. In 1949, at 19, he was standing on the running board of a car when it swerved into a utility pole. The crash crushed the young man's skull, broke his collarbone and punctured a lung. He was in a coma with a 107° fever and high pulse when doctors decided to cease treatment. A neighbor lent the parents a piece of Neumann's cassock. Soon after they touched Kent with the cloth he began to recover. Now a music teacher, Kent Lanahan says, "They couldn't explain what happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Saint They Almost Overlooked | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

Maryland was the winner of the meet, followed by Villanova, Seton Hall, Northeastern, Pennsylvania, Army, and Fairleigh-Dickinson...

Author: By Thomas A.J. Mcginn, | Title: Crimson Eighth in IC4As; Field Men Perform Well | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...University of Delaware won the tourney by only one stroke over Navy while Princeton finished third ahead of host squad Army and last year's winner, Temple. Then came Colgate, Villanova, and the Crimson...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golfers Fourth in NCAA Trail, Eighth in Eastern | 5/10/1977 | See Source »

...chief debt is not to the novels of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler but to the fiction of the '60s (including his own Little Big Man), written before black humor had been eclipsed by black studies. The convoluted and brazenly preposterous plot of Who Is Teddy Villanova? is simply Berger's excuse to practice verbal gunplay with a license to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Loopy Locutions | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

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