Word: maryland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teases his listeners as he teased the readers of his novels: "This speech was conceived in Maryland, U.S.A., on the Atlantic coast. You may ask: Didn't this man have anything better to do amid dunes, billboards and deserted beach hotels than to meditate on conditions in West Germany? Why didn't he stick to his past and spend his time thinking up the usual stories?" But once he has justified his position on the platform, Grass moves on to serious and substantial criticism of German society and politics. He wants"Splinter Parties," those with less than five per cent...
Four Harvard trackmen placed in the IC4A track and field championships at New Brunswick, N.J., this weekend, but the Crimson finished far behind front runner Maryland in the meet's team standings...
Keith Colburn, Noel Hare, Charlie Ajootian and Frank Champi scored a total of 13 points for the Crimson to give it a firm hold on seventh place in the championships. Winning Maryland racked up 45 of its 53 points in the field events to gain a one-point victory over pre-meet favorite Villanova, which was shut out in the field events. Yale scored 23 points to tie Morgan State for third place...
...claimed foul against the winner alleging interference at the first turn. After 23 minutes of consultation with the jockeys and a review of the race on video tape, the stewards decided to disallow the claim of foul. Had the race been one of less prestige to the state of Maryland one felt that the stewards' reactions might have been quite different...
...Maryland statute provides for a maximum of six months and $100 "if any person, by writing or speaking, shall blaspheme or curse God, or shall write or utter any profane words of and concerning our Saviour Jesus Christ, or of and concerning the Trinity, or any of the persons thereof." Similar statutes exist in half the states in the U.S. Most of them can be traced back to England and the 17th century, when penalties were harsh. In an early Maryland version of the law, first offenders had a hole bored through their tongues with a hot iron, second-timers...