Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also a big psychological factor in Harvard's consolation round game with Michigan Teach--a game Harvard eventually won, 6-5, in double overtime...
Although the Mexican Revolution ended a half-century ago and some of its accoutrements, the big sombreros and the moustaches, may seem laughable to us now, the Revolution remains an instructive episode in modern history. Zapata's guerrilla tactics were those the Viet Cong use; during the Huerta dictatorship, villagers in Morelos were herded into camps while their land was defoliated, that the farmers might be pacified; journalists and outside agitators attempted to change the course of the Revolution...
...GOALS of the Morelos people were limited. The fought long and hard in big-league competition for little-league demands--the plots of land they had always farmed. Over and over Zapata made him men disarm, take off their crossed bullet belts, because a new winner in Mexico City promised him that now the campesinos of Mexico would have what belonged to them. As the years went by and the guerrilla war continued, Zapata did become more sophisticated. Men with grander schemes and more education became his aides and wrote grand statements for him to sign. He reached stages...
Gurry, selected last week to the ECAC first team, is both a defensive talent and a big offensive threat. He was Harvard's fifth leading scorer in Ivy competition with three goals and eleven assists...
...running as fast as he could go, and, as he looked, people toppled slowly and fell like ninepins, full length on the pavement, like big cardboard boxes being dropped. . . . The acute angle of the horizon, squeezed between the houses, hurtled toward him. Beneath his feet it was night. A night of black cotton wool, shapeless and inorganic, while the sky was colorless, a ceiling, one more acute angle...