Word: balled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sophomore point guard Sam Watkins dazzled the opposition with his fine ball control, as he set the pace for the game. Dave Durham also impressed for the Crimson, hustling when he had the ball and moving well to the open spot when he didn...
Penders, who played AA ball in the Cleveland Indians organization after he was graduated from Connecticut College, came to Fordham this year after a four-year stint in the Ivy ranks with Columbia. Penders brought the reputation of a miracle worker to Morningside Heights, and he lived up to his billing, turning around a basketball program that had thoroughly petered out after the days of Jim McMillian and Heyward Dotson. His teams improved in a geometric progression, going from 4-22 in 1974-75, to 8-17, to 16-10. Last year Columbia finished...
...phenomenon of the debut came into vogue in America during the early 1800's. Commonly known as "coming out," the inaugural ball was usually a young woman's first formal affair, and as such marked the end of schoolgirl days. Symbolically, it represented the metamorphosis of a young girl into a young woman eligible to receive suitors. Cynical observors often labeled the coming out season "the marriage market,", since a debutante's family hoped that by the end of the season and its whirl of parties, dances, and functions, the debutante would have become some scion's fiancee. A historian...
...debut or going to college. Today, individual families rarely present their daughters as in times past. Instead, some type of social organization whith a name like the Bachelor's Club or the Spinster's Circle sponsors her and her sister debutantes. That is, they will give the presentation ball and coordinate the various social functions, in return for a considerable fee, colloquially known as "the deb's dowry...
...class." She must be clad completely in virginal white, and wear long white gloves. The club will supply her with a bouquet of roses and either she or her sponsors will provide at least two male escorts, dressed in tails, so she can dance away every minute of the ball if she so wishes. Photographers will be on hand, naturally, constantly taking candid and posed pictures, which they will gladly (and expensively) collate into a leather album. In this way, the memories of this glorious evening can, with a little prompting, glow in her heart forever...