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Word: weather (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Consider the evidence. Let's look for a second at Harvard's performance against non-Ivy teams. The Crimson played four weak non-league opponents: Wesleyan, Amherst, Williams and Bowdoin. It shut out three of them and tied Amherst 1-1 in miserable weather more suited to polarbear hunting than soccer...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Don't Judge a Team By Its Record | 11/21/1979 | See Source »

Winter is descending on the Iraqi capital, or so they claim in the coffeehouses on Saadun Street, even though the afternoon temperature hovers above 90°. After comments on the weather, conversations with leather-faced Iraqi peasants, sipping lemon tea or sweet Turkish coffee, or with natty young chain-smoking bureaucrats from nearby ministries turn these days to politics. That means the ascendancy of Saddam Hussein, who has moved decisively to strengthen his grip on the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: An End to Isolationism | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...house in 1968, $100,000 for the apartment in Boston in which Joan lives and $75,000 in 1961 for the white frame house on Squaw Island, about a mile from the Kennedy family compound at Hyannis Port. He is at Squaw Island almost every weekend during the warm-weather months, and these weekends focus on family and sports. Kennedy loves the outdoors, even though he has dry skin and too much exposure causes it to break out in red blotches. He and Patrick swim before breakfast, then they may go surf casting for an hour. After another hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedy Challenge | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...WEATHER the crooked linoleum corridors of the second floor of the Jefferson Physics Laboratory, you come upon an unassuming, airy, office, distinguishable from all others only by its lazily opened door. Above the nameplate--"Prof. S. Glashow"--somebody's placed a gun control sticker, and above that a cockeyed "congratulations"--modest. as if in celebration of a birthday...

Author: By James Aisenberg, | Title: An Invitation To Stockholm | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...lightning scoring barrage has to be attributed as much to the weather as to the offensive prowess of Brown. An interception on Harvard's third play of the half gave the Bruins the ball at the Crimson 36, setting up a 36-yard touchdown run by Rick Villella...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Don't Forget Galoshes | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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