Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans in Iran, Americans at home have largely managed to control their indignation. There have been only a few isolated attacks on Iranians. Two weeks ago, the Greenville Technical College in South Carolina voted to bar all 104 of its Iranian students from re-enrolling in the winter quarter. But after a warning from the state attorney general and other authorities, the college last week reinstated the students. Iranians will doubtless find a more permissive attitude in the U.S. when-and if-the American hostages are released unharmed from the embassy in Tehran...
Inside, people are crammed shoulder to shoulder and spill outdoors into the courtyard. At the railing before the iconostasis, old men and women are so crowded they can hardly cross themselves. At their feet, small children kneel. The congregation is elderly as usual, but at least a quarter seem to be young or middleaged. The chanting and the choir, the incense, the smell of wax, the glow and reflection from hundreds of candles, the sheer body heat slowly become hypnotic. In one corner of the railing is a young woman in an expensive tailored suit, eyes closed, face pale, arms...
After falling behind early, Harvard exploded for 13 straight points and a ten-point lead in the middle of the first half, a margin that expanded to 28 by the time both benches cleared in the fourth quarter...
Poised sophomore guard-forward Don Fleming, Harvard's top scorer last year, led the attack in the first half with 13 points, including seven in a row. He finished tied for the game's scoring lead with 21--despite fouling out with more than a quarter remaining...
...effort was partially successful, as Neville pumped for 21, tied with Fleming for game-high laurels. But the scrappy (McLauglin's favorite word for his team) defense forced him to miss more than half of his shots before he fouled out in the fourth quarter...