Word: afternoon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brutal world of big-time stock car racing, and 31 weekends a year, from January to November, they are transformed. Exchanging their designer jeans and Christian Dior shirts for fire-resistant jumpsuits, they climb behind the wheels of souped-up sedans?Chevrolets, Fords, Oldsmobiles-?or a Sunday afternoon of racing. And once the gentlemen have started their engines, they often revert to type, crowding each other, even banging fenders, at 170 m.p.h., just as the mythic forebears of their sport dueled with the revenooers on the back roads twisting through the Appalachian Mountains...
...then all hell broke loose in the seventh. After tossing out Rod Hibner for the second out. Brown (the pitcher) seemed ready to end the game despite the Bruin runners at the corners. But an intentional walk to load the bases and Larry Carbone's triple undid the afternoon's work. John King added insult to injury by kissing a Brown pitch goodbye over the left center field fence for the last run and the final, 7-4 score...
...story of this game was written in the first inning," senior righthander Tim Clifford said after pitching Harvard to a 14-4, make-up game victory over Yale Sunday afternoon at Soldiers Field...
...This afternoon the Crimson will be braving the wilds of New Jersey to take on a deadly Princeton squad...
Later in the afternoon. Steiner stood outside Massachusetts Hall again, this time to read a "personal reaction" to the demands made by the Coalition for Action and Awareness, which organized the rally. Demands are incompatible with "reasoned debate." Steiner told the hissing crowd...