Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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As is often the case with Crimson hockey teams, the 7 to 2 loss to Toronto was due largely to sloppy playing in the final minute of the game.
Last year's Christmas tournament was highlighted by a wild brawl between players and fans and a second place finish to a powerful Toronto team. The tournament, held in Boston, saw impressive Crimson victories over Brown, Colby, and Northeastern, and a thrilling 5 to 4 conquest of the Providence College...
Despite the seeming monolithic character of Massachusetts government, its structure is basically just a colonial saltbox illogically encrusted with the bureaucratic gingerbread trappings of the 19th and 20th centuries. Even Foster Furcolo's bitterest enemies do not accuse him of the despotism for which the colonials always suspected George III...
Opposition to constitutional reform itself comes from those who because of political interest and sentimental conservatism will obstruct any attempt to disturb the status quo. The Governor's Council and County officials quite correctly see their positions threatened, and many in the 280-large General Court (the third largest legislature...
Some conscientious supporters of reform fear that a popularly elected convention would run amuck over the Declaration of Rights and perhaps abolish the protection against self-incrimination. Backers of a convention answer that this suspicion of the electorate is inconsistent with democratic government; but they add that even if the...