Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final session, the Crimson's passing game disappeared. Worse, its penalty parade--the cause of many a Coach Bill Cleary headache this season--resumed, as the Big Green (2-2-1, 2-2-1) closed the margin to 3-2. But a John Murphy tally midway through the period clinched the defending national champions' second victory of the year...
...first period was dominated by Roy and center Mike Vukonich, playing his third game since switching from wing. Roy kept the Big Green at bay, kicking, batting and sticking away shot after shot. And Vukonich beat Dartmouth goaltender Steve Laurin twice to give the Crimson a lead it wouldn't relinquish...
Thirteen minutes later, Vukonich was the grateful recipient of another beautiful assist, this one by Tod Hartje. As a Big Green checker tried to ride Hartje off the puck, the versatile wing dropped a no-look, between-the-legs pass to a streaking Vukonich, who nailed a screamer past Laurin...
...mark, Young's tripping penalty gave the Big Green a 5-3 advantage with defender Kevan Melrose already in the box. Roy made a brilliant glove save to kill off Melrose's penalty, but with Young still serving time, the Big Green closed the margin to 3-2 on a perfectly executed two-on-one capped off by Tom Nieman...
...novels about Paris or Thackeray's Vanity Fair. He kept waiting for some novelist to encompass the great phenomena of the age -- the hippie movement, say, or racial clashes or the Wall Street boom. But no one came forward. "It had been only yesterday, in the 1930s, that the big realistic novel, with its broad social sweep, had put American literature on the world stage for the first time," Wolfe writes, apparently forgetting such pre-1930s writers as Mark Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser. He adds that while five of the first six American Nobel laureates...