Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Mannix opened the second half with a perfect 18-footer to put Harvard ahead, 47-45, but when Hall sank an equally long jumper at the other end with 13:56 left, Penn had run off a 14-4 string and positioned itself to hang on for the victory. THE NOTEBOOK: Penn finished fourth in the NCAA nationals last year, but any kind of repeat seems unlikely this season...
...final bright spot for the Crimson was the apparent good health of heavyweight Jim Phills. He wiped out all doubts about his recent knee troubles with a string of demolition derby moves over Bob Garthwaite, leading to a quick first period...
...many Americans, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was only the latest in a long, and seemingly unbroken, string of Moscow-sponsored Communist takeovers. Between 1944 and 1948, Albania, Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany all fell under Soviet control, either by Soviet army conquest or political subversion. North Korea, which was occupied by Soviet troops, entered Moscow's orbit in 1948, and China the following year, after Mao Tse-tung's armies swept across the country. Five years later, North Viet Nam became Communist, after the peasant armies of Ho Chi Minh humiliated the French...
Penn, undefeated in Ivy competition this year, comes to the IAB tonight for an 8 p.m. contest. Led by captain Jamie Salters, the Quakers rate as heavy favorites to continue their undefeated string...
Though Harvard managed a 43-per-cent average in the second half, the respectable figure came only because the Crimson got a string of baskets in the closing minutes against a group of B.C. subs...