Word: bernal
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...swimming end of things, Coach Joe Bernal feels he's looking at potentially the best year since he arrived at Harvard six seasons...
...jungle fruits and rare herbs and skillfully wrought creations of silver and gold. "The magnificence, the strange and marvelous things of this great city are so remarkable as not to be believed," Hernando Cortés wrote back to the imperial court of Charles V. "We were seeing things," Bernal Díaz del Castillo recalled in his memoir of the Spanish invasion, "that had never been heard of or seen before, nor even dreamed about...
...Bernal Díaz, the chronicler of Cortés' conquest, was horrified on his first visit to the temple. "There were some braziers with incense...
...Bernal also mentioned "the built-in mechanism in our society which likes to see champions knocked off." Indeed, it seemed that all elements had teamed up to make it difficult, if not impossible, for Harvard to repeat as champions...
...Bernal protested the decision, but to no avail. The Crimson camp was feeling very frustrated. "What could we do?" asked Co-Captain Courtney Roberts. "We could just use that anger in the pool." At the time, Bernal said that the disqualification could act as "a double-edged sword," equally capable of helping or hurting the team's morale...