Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American expatriates who sleep in or about Paris and London. One, a bastard named only Wyeth, moves from bed to bed, uncaring and undiscriminating, seeking only to assuage a deep-down itch. His friend, Harry Steiner, is escaping from his middle-class Bronx past, from the squares back home, from his own terrible insecurity. They dig the easy life, the life of least resistance, the life of escape via jazz, junk, drink...
Easy Living unfortunately never gets beyond the dirty joke stage. Steiner departs for America just as smut-ridden as when he left. The woman he almost came to love is, when the story ends, back in Paris where we first found her, still unloved. Only the location of the beds and the position of the players thereon have changed...
Cahn held off Dartmouth's Roger Coates for second place, crossing the finish in 4:23.2, a respectable first effort. After recovering, he walked off the track muttering about "crazy people" who run the mile. An hour later, however, Cahn was back on the track for the two-mile. Here again he did well, covering the distance in 10:18 for third place behind the Crimson's Willy Thompson and Coates...
...minutes of the third period, the Crimson continued to dominate the game, battling back to an 8-4 count on goals by Cabral and Nick Lamont. At 10:11 of the period, however, U.N.H. scored its ninth goal, and from then on the Crimson had no chance. Late in the third period, Dick Parks scored the varsity's fifth goal...
Yale, with its top five men back from last year and with a slightly more impressive record this spring, should rate as a shaky favorite today. But Crimson coach Jack Barnaby says, "Everyone knows Yale is very good, but we're good too, and we will be ready and up for this match." Neither Barnaby nor Yale coach John Skillman was willing last night to predict the outcome. Skillman said, "It should be a very good, hard-fought match," and that is precisely what it is going...