Word: bores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the intimidation, Harvard consistently penetrated the Yale defense only to be stopped time and again by everybody's MVP for Saturday night's game, Eli goalie Bill McKenzie. In the second period, Goodenow and Roth bore down on one Yale defender. The puck went to Roth who seemed to have the whole net to shoot at. A certain goal, right? No, just another phenomenal sliding save, which caused Goodenow to wack the boards in frustration as he glided...
...year-old Moriarty has been working hard in the profession for 15 years. "For a long while," he says wryly, "I felt like a barren tree. I knew there were a lot of creative juices inside of me and yet nothing was happening. Then in 1973 I finally bore fruit. Boy, did I ever! It was hanging all over...
...Being 90 is a bore," says Alice Roosevelt Longworth. She pulls a twisted ivory narwhal tusk (a gift from Rear Admiral Peary) from a corner of her drawing room, brandishes it like a spear, strikes a Brunhilde pose-then roars with laughter at her performance, flashing an abundance of Roosevelt teeth. At 90, she is as defiantly unconventional as she was in the opening years of the century, when the nation was never sure whether to be delighted or mortified by her then shocking antics-donning riding breeches, driving an automobile, smoking cigarettes, jumping fully clothed into a swimming pool...
...scholars called it "the most exciting cartographic discovery of the century." The map, acquired by Yale's library, was the first to show the Western Hemisphere as it was discovered by the Vikings centuries before Columbus. It became known as the "Vinland map" because it bore a Latin inscription declaring that Bjarni and Leif Ericson had "discovered a new land, extremely fertile and even having vines, the which island they named Vinland...
Aneurin was a 7th century Welsh warrior-bard, and Aneurin Bevan aptly bore his name. Roaring into the House of Commons in 1929, the original Angry Young Man, he became-second only to his archfoe, Winston Churchill -the most hypnotic orator and contumacious politician of 20th century Britain. One of seven surviving sons of a Monmouthshire miner who died of lung disease, "Nye" Bevan, even in his plummy days as a Buckinghamshire squire and playboy of the West End world, never forgot or forgave the hardscrabble existence eked out by the working folk of his native valleys. His principal monument...