Word: virtual
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When Cullity's shot stretched the twine high to Lau's right Harvard's ECAC record dropped below .500 for the first time all season, and made defeating Brown a virtual necessity. The few veterans on this year's freshman-dominated squad could recall the first Saturday in January a year ago, when the Bruins trudged into Brookline and skated Harvard into the Walter Brown Arena ice, 7-3, before a national T.V. audience. Likewise, the prospect of a six-game losing streak did not appeal to the Crimson...
...1970s China began opening to the West after two decades of virtual isolation. At the end of the '60s, the Chinese leaders, observing America's post-Vietnam withdrawal from Asia and concurrent Soviet aggresiveness--manifested by invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, an attack on the Chinese border in 1969, and Soviet hints of taking out China's nuclear capacity--concluded that the Soviet Union now posed China's main threat. contacts with the West would be useful in reducing the dangers from the Soviets and they suddenly became receptive to diplomatic, cultural, and economic ties with other industrial powers: Western...