Word: beating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...farming again. The normally equable Fossey becomes a raging hysteric whenever she encounters a man who she thinks is selling poisonously nonorganic food to her fellow citizens. Serres, convinced that a friend is being driven to suicide by a brother-in-law's financial misdealings, sets out to beat some sense into the miscreant. Naturally he sets upon the wrong man. But no matter. His friend pulls back from self-destruction, but later goes ahead and kills himself anyway...
Fortunately for the Crimson as the going got tough the big guns got going. Becky Tung, playing at number two, beat Betsy Miller in three games...
Anybody that is, except Harvard, and this is all that remains on Taylor's "things-to-do" chart for the season. He wants to wipe out a current eight-game losing streak versus Harvard, beat his former colleague Billy Cleary, and give the Yale fans one more big win before the Zamboni, comes off for the final time...
Against the Tigers on Sunday, however, Moore will have much tougher competition as she faces freshman Kris Kinney, who beat Moore 3-1 last year while she played for Andover. (I thought that meant she was supposed to come here...
...friends--Janice, with whom I had gone to high school, and Marguerite, her current roommate--who had paid $20 each to catch a glimpse of Richard Dreyfuss, and a taste of what Harvard theater was all about. They hadn't even seen Dreyfuss, but were nonetheless preparing to beat a Hasty Pudding Retreat to the egress at intermission. Marguerite asked the inevitable question: "Is this what all Harvard shows are like?" Mumbling something to the effect that she had missed the point of these affairs entirely, I followed her out the door...