Word: breather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brown contest is a must game, and for a squad that has always unconsciously regarded the Bruins as somewhat of an emotional breather, it will be difficult to prepare psychologically for the sort of enthusiasm with which Brown will approach the game...
Cornell. Penn. and Harvard are all tied for third place with 1-2 records and their chances for the championship are slim. The Crimson plays Penn this weekend, while Cornell ??? breather, hosting Columbia...
...that he was doing research for his speech this month at the bicentennial celebration of the Emperor's birth in Ajaccio, Corsica. The President was taking a long weekend with his wife and son at Pointe de 1'Ar-couest on the Brittany coast, his first real breather since assuming office. According to Paris Match, it was practically a second honeymoon: "Hand in hand, they run among the rocks, they go for cruises, and, like all vacationers, they return to their place, tired and smiling, their shoes in their hands...
...fiancé, are towers of Jello. The women, wife and daughter, are ice picks. They live in what is almost a psychotic New York milieu of impending violence and the rape of privacy. There are three locks and a burglar alarm on the front door. There is also "The Breather," a telephonic intruder, who calls at odd, menacing hours to breathe and snort. At comic and not-so-comic war with itself, the family listens to sporadic rifle fire in the streets that betokens a city at war with itself...
Dartmouth travels to Ithaca to try to hold onto third place by containing Cornell's Alexandridis, while Yale should have a breather at Princeton...