Word: ace
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...season expectations do not run any higher than those submitted by the Ivy League's eight coaches and sports information directors, who picked Harvard to finish fourth and seventh, respectively. Those polls were taken last spring, when it was known that the great sophomore quarterback first-string passing ace--Terry Bartolet--had withdrawn from school for a year...
...TIME will seek the real facts, it will find that its figures represent total listings in an annual catalogue of drug store merchandise, the Red Book, whose listings, roughly, run from Ace combs to Zoe eyebrow pencils, from adhesive tape to vending machines for postage stamps...
...English may have lost a possible first place and the meet when their 440 ace, Adrian Metcalfe of Oxford, could not run because of an upset stomach. Metcalfe had previously won the 220 in 21.9; Penn's Bob Harper took...
...before it rolled over and sank to the bottom of the sea. The legend lived on to tempt some 25,000 novelists, historians and playwrights to mention it or conjecture about it; but Hollywood has strangely looked the other way. Now much-Oscared George Pal, the cinema's ace conjurer of cosmic cataclysm (War of the Worlds, When Worlds Collide), has re-created this crazy continent, given it a colossal blood bath and sunk it again. In the process he has admirably fulfilled his ambition to supply escapist entertainment "with an element of wonder, stressing man's suppressed...
...spectacular moments of the day came for the Crimson on the track. The mile was the most unexpected Harvard victory; a highly partisan crowd, jubilant when Mark Mullin passed Dartmouth's Tom Laris on the third lap, went wild as Jed Fitzgerald and Ed Hamlin both passed the Dartmouth ace with 210 yards to go. Mullin's time was 4:11.1; Fitzgerald was a second and a half behind...