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...minutes later, junior Peter Follows (an Ontario native) added the Crimson's fifth and final tally on a wrist shot from about 25 feet out Toronto again closed to within one with just over three minutes remaining, but Harvard stood firm...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Icemen Edge Toronto, 5-4 | 12/1/1984 | See Source »

...campaign waged by Ferraro was unique in ways both small and large. She was doubtless the only serious contender for Vice President ever to have been presented with a wrist corsage before speaking at a fund-raising dinner (she firmly declined to wear it), or to have had to apologize for the lipstick smears left on babies held up for campaign busses. She was probably the least-known candidate chosen for the No. 2 spot on a major party ticket since Barry Goldwater picked another relatively obscure New York House member, William Miller, as his running mate in 1964. Unlike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election '84: A Credible Candidacy And Then Some | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...does not smoke or chew tobacco, and he eats the meat only of an animal that has been slain with one decisive stroke. In accordance with his religion, he at all times wears the five Ks: kes (long hair); kach (short trousers); kara (a steel bracelet on his right wrist); kangha (a comb); and kirpan (a curved dagger). Holding tenaciously to a creed of activism that decrees, "With your hands carve out your destiny," he tends to be a hard-working farmer, a go-getting businessman or a fearless warrior. He has been described, with poetic license perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lions of Punjab | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...They pour huge amounts of cash into banks almost with blithe abandon, then withdraw it practically at will. The present law, passed in 1970, calls for a bank to notify federal authorities whenever a deposit exceeds $10,000. The law, though, has often been ineffective, in part because of wrist-slapping fines of only $1,000 against banks that fail to report the large deposits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dirty Money in the Spotlight | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...other end of the field, the Minutemen held the hosts in check, and if not for one quick Crimson flick of a wrist, the visitors might have left town with a scoreless...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Stickwomen Shock Sixth-Ranked Minutemen 1-0 | 10/18/1984 | See Source »

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