Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Erwin sent in the saws and the bulldozer, with orders to "get the big ones first." They were in such a hurry to get the trees down that they used saws that had been built solely for trimming branches on the trunks. Erwin got so carried away with his own power that he even had his men cut the one big cypress which, according to the university's stadium plan, was supposed to have been spared...
...Union who were sleeping there), and the city and state police had always avoided the campus. Erwin seemed to be trying to goad the students into a riot (but we're such a docile bunch that we never responded-besides, his side had all the guns). When the first big cypress fell, he raised his hands up, clapped, and cheered. To the students he said, "I don't give a shit what you think." To a young mother lamenting the trees, "I couldn't care less about you or your children...
...knew the injunction would probably be dissolved since the big trees it was supposed to save were already gone, but I didn't care- it made me feel good just to be building something where somebody else had been destroying. Besides, there's still one nice stretch of the creek left, and maybe after all the uproar they'll be afraid to destroy it with any future projects. At least they're going to leave the creek and not cement...
...contrast to Terrell is Harvard's number two man, Fritz Hobbs. "Hobbs has a distinctive style all his own," Barnaby said. The former Olympic crew member "gets on top of his opponent and pummels him." Barnaby said. "He's a big son-of-a-gun, and he just hits hard and pushes right at his opponents. It's like expecting a snowstorm and suddenly getting hit by an avalanche...
Harvard is the only institution with such a stadium, and since the Boston city fathers and their friends in the State House aren't terribly enthusiastic about building a facility. Harvard is the last hope of "big time" football in Boston...