Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the rain isn't going to stop. Saturday's good weather was a final taunt, merely a parody of Harvard football weather to remind us of a lost era. Someone will probably point out that this rain started after Nixon's speech, and that it rained quite a bit after his election, too. But, remembering the simian grimaces, the compulsive wiping of a sweaty upper lip, the glazed smile after fluffed lines, we'll realize that Richard Nixon just isn't in the rain-maker league. Then there will be the handful of optimists who start keeping count. waiting...
...bit shocked, to say the least, by Yovicsin's post-touchdown strategy. The situation called for an outsides kick so that we could get the ball back and score in the final second. But Billy Kelly stayed on the bench and Szaro kicked a regular old kickoff, and it ended. Yovicsin, though clearly disappointed, seemed to be taking it in stride after the gam. "I have a lot of fun coaching," he said...
...newspapermen weren't listening. Mike Royko, a columnist for the Chicago Daily News. had the Weathermen pegged as aristocratic dilettantes. "They spoke a combination of Negro slang, greaser jargon, and Marxist slogans, which is a bit hard to do if you have a Ph.D. in Anthropology and your father is a stockbroker...
Since they can tell which way the wind blows, the Weathermen know that the revolution is coming from the Third World (perhaps a bit anti-Marxian). They contend that the blacks can "do it alone" -overthrow the state and seize control by themselves-so white radicals must act fast to get on the right side...
...there is clearly quite a bit at stake this afternoon, and the loser, if it is Harvard, can write off any hopes of a second-place finish. If the loser is Princeton. the best the Tigers can hope for might be a tie for the runner-up position...