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Word: yarding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...celebrated (the Pimlico bread knife slaying, the Great Yarmouth seafood murder). Now, however, Oxonian Archer and his boozy, street-smart assistant, Detective Sergeant Harry Woods, are working directly under Gruppenführer Fritz Kellerman, senior SS officer and police chief of Great Britain. Unlike his compatriots, the Yard man is free to move around at will in a prewar Railton automobile; he gets German-issue cigarettes, frequent dollops of real Highland Scotch, and attends fraternal parties at which the occupiers, and collaborationists from bed, board room and Burke's Peerage, shamelessly down quantities of beluga caviar and champagne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ungreened Isle | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

Though you can't see the College's problems on a walk through the Yard, administrators emphasize the size and the seriousness of Harvard's needs. Most students have already met the chief culprit, inflation, through burgeoning annual increases in college costs. But cost hikes reveal only part of the problem...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The Big Fund Drive: Arming for the Future | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...strategy paid off as Dixon ran a strong first leg before handing off to Chafee, who worked up about a six-yard lead which McNulty widened...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Thinclads Ninth at IC4As; Stiles, Relay Team Shine | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Keohan said the department may use fences consisting of stakes and wires, similar to those used in the Yard, rather than the red wooden snow fences which surrounded the Quad during the fall...

Author: By Marce E. Raven, | Title: B&G Will Re-Install Fences In Effort to Protect Quad Sod | 3/3/1979 | See Source »

President Horner will leave the walls of the Radcliffe Yard behind tomorrow in favor of the Great Wall of China...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horner: Around the World in 13 Days | 3/3/1979 | See Source »

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