Word: balle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many of you remember last year's game, but a strong finish by the Crimson brought a 29-29 tie, evidence that Harvard isn't always as bad as it seems. Of course, one of the boys who contributed to that rally is Frank Champi, who has stopped playing ball hereabouts. He especially shocked some observers when he left the stands during this year's 24-10 loss to Dartmouth with more than a minute left. We were only 14 points behind, and Frank left! He didn't go to the dressing room, and he didn't seek...
While the Harvard cheerleaders loll about on the sidelines doing push-ups when the Crimson scores, and the Harvard fans leisurely sip on their Scotch-and-waters, the Band vehemently eggs the Harvard charges onward with traditional cheers like "Shove that Ball" and "E to the x! dy! dx!/E to the y! dy!/cosine, secant, tangent, sine/three point one four one five nine/come on Harvard, give 'em the digit!" The latter cheer is called "Engineers...
...loss to understand how George W. Ball can believe that U.S. national interest in Berlin is "fundamental" and in Viet Nam only "marginal" [Nov. 7]. As an isolated and militarily indefensible outpost, West Berlin is of no strategic value; it is indeed a liability, because fears of Soviet retaliatory pressures against the hostage city restrict American freedom of action elsewhere. The decisive argument against abandoning Berlin is simply that to surrender a U.S.-protected non-Communist population to Communist rule would be a morally intolerable betrayal, and that for Washington to let itself be coerced into committing such a betrayal...
...with the Empress Eugenie aboard, led a convoy of 46 vessels south from Port Said to meet Egyptian warships at Ismailia. Fireworks rocketed above the waterway, while 6,000 guests, including the Emperor of Austria and the Crown Prince of Prussia, celebrated the opening of Suez at a huge ball. Said Builder Ferdinand de Lesseps to the Khedive Ismail of Egypt: "Moses ordered the waters of the Red Sea to retire, and they obeyed him. Today, at your command, they return to their former...
Spirit will win you a ball game that you wouldn't otherwise win, but you have to play a fairly solid brand of football in the process. Harvard hasn't, and only the most uninitiated observer of the Harvard team this fall has failed to notice...