Word: closely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard drew North Carolina in the first round of the Carolina Tournament on Dec. 29 and 30. The Crimson played close to the undefeated Tar Heels until a three-point play gave them a ten-point margin early in the second half they never relinquished, North Carolina won that game, 92-74. and the tournament by topping Bowling Green...
...with the now famous red. white and blue American bald eagle (Juris patriotus). The thrasher is often confused with the Communist-eating hawk (Victus eternus), but differs in its diet, for the thrasher thrives on yellow-bellied land snatchers and pink-tufted dissenters (Marxis militanus). The thrasher is a close relative of the Baltimore hatchet wielder (Agnewus intim-idalus) and the rednecked robin (Thur-mondus segregatus), until recently thought to be extinct...
...level-the children at boarding school, the investments divided-they exchanged memos. Fond memos. tender memos-but still memos-not dashed off, but surely edited. Putting the ultimate strain on public credulity, L.B.J. said that in May 1964 he had painfully committed to paper what he had told some close friends: "The times require leadership and a voice. I have learned after trying very hard that I am not that voice, or that leader...
...eyes were blank-his mind was a thousand miles away. We talked, and then he stuck his hand out, shook mine, and said it had been nice knowing me. 'What do you mean?' I asked. There's no way for me. I've come close to it a number of times. I won't be back...
...days, but nowhere is his extensive range of characters more fully revealed than in his first record album, I Am the President. The album has all those old political favorites plus Spiro Agnew, David Susskind and Henry Fonda, all right on target. Nixon's singsong baritone is so close to the mark, it makes one hope Frye never gets near the hot line. L.B.J.'s drawl reeks of chili down on the Pedernales, while Nelson Rockefeller's gravelly voice sounds as if he had taken a speech-improvement course and swallowed the pebbles...