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This was a game in which the booters matched their season high for goals scored despite the sluggish first half. "We were sleeping out there at first," Diaz said afterward. "It took a goal to get us going...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Walter Diaz Tallies a Pair As Booters Topple Tufts, 3-1 | 11/2/1978 | See Source »

...only singles player who had any difficulty winning at all, Sally Roberts at number six, woke up after a sluggish start which saw her drop the first set of her match to Kathy Carey, and collected all but two of the remaining games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netwomen Blank Wellesley, 9-0 | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

...Grade and director Franklin J. Schaffner a thing or two about captivating an audience. He would have told them that manipulation requires careful pacing, a dash of wit, and a lot of fervor. You've got to work and keep working, he would have said--you can't be sluggish or cowardly. It's all right to be simplistic and to prey upon people's most basic fears and desires, and it helps to be as perverse and merciless as possible, but you've got to have charisma...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Cloning A Disaster | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...captain Julie Brynteston, emerging from a sluggish first few minutes, set up the Crimson's second goal with a hard ground pass from the left side of the penalty area to Ferrante, who placed a left-foot precision shot high into the top left corner of the goal...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Wome Survive Green Comeback, 3-2 | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

Alexander's round started out inauspiciously when he double bogeyed the first hole and then three putted the third through fifth on sluggish greens. After shooting a 40 going out, he careened into the clubhouse with an even par 35 for the back nine by tucking a 155-yd. eight-iron two feet from the pin on number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Linksters Miss ECAC Cutoff; Alexander Qualifies with a 75 | 10/7/1978 | See Source »

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