Word: six
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...that was not the case Saturday at Briggs Cage, where the Crimson stumbled in its season-opening 87-76 loss to Lehigh. While Harvard played its pressure man-to-man defense almost perfectly in the first six minutes, its lack of depth became all-too-apparent and fatigue...
Overall, the Engineers finished with 27 baskets in the paint, far outdistancing Harvard's total of 13. Dozie Mbonu led the way with 11 layups and tip-ins as part of his 11-for-17 night from the field, and Bob Krizansky added six baskets in the lane en route to a 25-point, 9-for-12 effort from the field...
...favorable ruling provided only momentary respite. Six of the women found themselves suspended from their jobs as professors at King Saud University in Riyadh after organized bands of students staged angry protests. "Not one of my students understood what I was trying to accomplish," said a stunned victim. Leaflets passed out at mosques during Friday prayers accused the women of undermining Saudi morality and, worst of all, showing signs of "American secularism." The women's names, phone numbers and addresses were printed and distributed. Menacing telephone calls followed. Says a friend of one of the women: "They are afraid that...
...first 14 novels have not risen from Rockland's slime to shame their creator. Most of them, he says, had shamed him already, by collecting thumbprints and rejection letters from virtually all the reputable publishing houses in New York City and Boston. What gave him the courage to deep-six such a large shelf of certifiably lame literature, however, was an acceptance. The Friends of Eddie Coyle, a gritty, amiably cynical tale about barroom lowlifes and courthouse small-timers in Massachusetts, had been bought by Knopf. Higgins prepared, at last, for overnight success. What followed showed why novel writing...
...fact be possible. Children of male workers at the Sellafield nuclear power plant were up to eight times as likely to be stricken by leukemia as children whose fathers did not work at the plant. The researchers theorized that cumulative low-level doses of radiation during the six months before conception may have triggered the damage...