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Word: grounds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...August 20 University police found Aras lying unconscious beneath a rope hanging from a Widener Library window. Two volumes of the Bible were in a knapsack next to him on the ground. Police said Aras appeared to have fallen while climbing down the rope...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charges Against Suspect in Bible Theft Dismissed | 12/4/1969 | See Source »

...your feet, out from under you, while another one yanks one of your hands off of the limb above you. They even sawed off one limb with a person still on it. The police lowered some people head first and shoved others into the uplifted bulldozer jaws. On the ground, they handcuffed their arms behind their backs and sometimes tossed them over their shoulders like logs (three cops per tree person) to carry to the vans. Twenty-seven people were arrested. The last person to come down was a gutsy girl in the top of a cypress. The police could...

Author: By Larry Grisham, | Title: Administrators vs. Trees at the University of Texas | 12/3/1969 | See Source »

...Terrell relies on a sound, aggressive ground stroke," Barnaby said "He has developed a lot of game strategy and recently he has been concentrating on adding a front wall finesse to his attack." The result is that Terrell is presently ranked as the third best amateur player in the nation...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Harvard Squash Team Opens Defense of National Championship at Amherst | 12/3/1969 | See Source »

...first relay. Springfield's Gary Spracklin opened up a three-yard lead, which his team preserved through the first 200 yards. But on the third leg, Crimson butterflyer Johnny Munk began to make up ground on his Springfield opponent, closing the lead to a foot with only the freestyle leg left. Toby Gerhart quickly evened the race and passed Steve O'Mearn in the final 35 yards to win by less than a second...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Swimmers Open With 73-40 Victory To Defeat Springfield 27th Time | 12/3/1969 | See Source »

...ground floor dining area was beginning to fill with lunching businessmen as Mr. Stack guided me to Harvard Hall, the main lounge. The decor was more "Harvard" than Harvard, and the men were a part of it. Dignity. Civility. White-haired men in baggy suits sat under framed images of themselves, while younger men stood expressionless in front of a TV screen which flashed silent, gray reports from the New York Stock Exchange. A granfalloon indeed. Each man reading his newspaper, comfortable in being alone with others like himself...

Author: By Julie E. Green, | Title: The Harvard Club Of New York City | 12/1/1969 | See Source »

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