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...would have gotten the bum's rush," said Frank D. Williams. "But now it won't happen so fast. Does Harvard like public opinion against them...

Author: By David Landau, | Title: 'A Beautiful Neighborhood Before Harvard' | 2/20/1970 | See Source »

...RILEY! Hey Riley you bum! Wait'll after the game, Riley." Riley, Jimmy Riley the Tech left wing who lives in West Roxbury and has been playing high school hockey for at least six years, is skating around, waiting for the face-off. You know he hears that voice. Christ, everybody hears it. But Jimmy just pretends that nothing at all is happening. Maybe he knows that this sort of thing gets yelled at him all the time, or that the guy probably hasn't got the sack to actually sucker him outside after the game...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: 'Hey Riley! Hey Riley you bum! | 2/7/1970 | See Source »

...sitting back in your apartment high over Cambridge, Massachusetts, when you flip out the Who from their jacket cover, put them on the turntable, and set the needle for "The Amazing Journey." It's usually when you just get to the part where the kettle drums come in (bum-bum, ba-dum ba-dum) that you realize that it's almost like you were right there watching them play that music. Maybe, you think, you should...

Author: By Felix Mantilla, | Title: Peter Bell | 1/28/1970 | See Source »

This was a bum rap, Mr. Powers and the Harvard CRIMSON, The irresponsibility of it is appalling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coach Denies Powers' Charges | 1/8/1970 | See Source »

...chicken coop, shacks, and sod houses, Beyond them was a string of transient campers where we set up camp with another group we met. We made a fire and ate beans, fried rice, bread and tomato soup, and we drank coffee. I walked back across to the springs to bum a smoke. Someone gave me a package of Bugler and papers which I took back to the group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Road from Gallup to Albuquerque: | 12/18/1969 | See Source »

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