Word: robin
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Crimson opens the tournament in Troy, N.Y., with probably its toughest opponent of the three-day round-robin, R.P.I. and the varsity face off Wednesday night in a game that should prove the sextet's strength among the top Eastern teams...
Atrocities were not all on one side. The camisards terrorized the Catholic countryside. They rushed into battle singing psalms ("When those devils began singing their dreadful songs, we couldn't control our soldiers," complained an officer of the King). Roland kept their morale high by his Robin Hood exploits and hairbreadth escapes. In the end he was caught and executed, and finally the camisards were reduced to a remnant. But their struggle had crystallized public opinion against religious intolerance, and for 45 years (from 1715 to 1760) Calvinist Antoine Court labored to restore French Protestantism -organizing local and national...
...supporters and closest confidants. Called "Gentle Alec" by his friends, tall, tweedy Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, 57, belongs to that diminishing number of landed Britons who go into politics as an inherited duty. His ancestors were border lairds who fought alternately for the English and the Scots. His nephew, Robin Douglas-Home, used to play the piano in nightclubs for a living, was recently in the news as a dashing contender for the hand of Sweden's Princess Margaretha. His younger brother William is a successful West End playwright who once wrote a hit comedy (Chiltern Hundreds) spoofing Gentle...
...from 95,000 tons to 345,940 tons) and Brazil (up from no share of the U.S. market to 100,347 tons). Both nations were overjoyed at the prospect but did not want to say so aloud, since many of their workers and peasants still consider Castro a bearded Robin Hood, boldly defying the U.S. Mexico's official rationalization is that Mexico, after all, began asking for an increased sugar quota long before the Cuba-U.S. crisis began...
...Last Mile. Whatever the merits of TV's coverage, some observers felt that, good or bad, it hurt the convention, that the whole show was too heavily rigged for TV effects. BBC Correspondent Robin Day, pointing out that TV cameras are forced to the back of the rbom in British conventions, said he thought the cameras injure the freedom of the U.S. press, killing off "the valid idea of off-the-record remarks," as politicians eagerly seek TV exposure and then produce floods of "blather and gobbledygook...