Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first few minutes of the game, Tufts tried to contain Harvard's high coring captain Dale Dover by playing a box and-one defense. Four men were employed in a zone, while the fifth was assigned to watch Dover...
Trailing 5-2 late in the second period, Harvard's skaters fought back to tie the score 5-5 on a goal by Andre Lemieux with 1:40 left in the third period. Immediately after the score, Harvard sent two players to the penalty box, finishing the period and starting the the overtime with only three skaters...
...Danny F.X. who had been standing by the juke-box finally put in a dime and a voice started singing "Red Roses for a Blue Lady...
...down? With some exceptions, the musical element in the performances of these troubadours is strangely disappointing. Words are what interests them, as is obvious from their undistinguished melodies. At best, the lyrics attain a gentle, sometimes mystical eloquence. Leonard Cohen, 33, an established Canadian poet and novelist (The Spice-Box of Earth, Beautiful Losers) who recently began performing his songs, tells of Suzanne, who "leads you to the river" and shows...
...with the codebreakers but also with the codemakers and nearly everyone of any consequence who has ever used codes-or seriously thought about them. As he guides the reader through the difficulties of steganography (invisible ink, microdots), monalphabetics (simple, one-alphabet systems, such as the one described in the box, next page), and polyalphabetics (many alphabets used in the same cipher message), Kahn keeps his subject lively and even dramatic. He describes, for example, how cryptology helped get the U.S. into one world war- and helped shorten another...