Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hundred and four season games, 500 hours of practice time, 32 sacrificed winter weekends, countless bus trips and hundreds of extra showers--that's what four years of varsity basketball at Harvard means...
...almost never visibly angered, even by the most hostile questions, and banters easily with practically anyone; he and his wife Nancy have made a ritual of passing out candy to reporters on campaign planes and buses. The old entertainer usually seeks to entertain his companions too. On a campaign bus driving through a heavy snow in New Hampshire, he started out with a labored joke: "If anyone hears dogs barking, it's because the next leg will be done by sled." That led to a stream-of-consciousness monologue skipping erratically from dogs to other animals to firearms (Reagan...
...yesterday, the Harvard hockey team boarded a bus and departed on their last--and longest--road trip of the season, a 500-mile jaunt to upstate New York. The icemen close out their 1979-80 season this weekend, facing St. Lawrence tonight in Canton, and driving down the road tomorrow to play the Golden Knights of Clarkson in Potsdam...
Because coach Billy Cleary wisely chose to fly to Maine and back the weekend before the Beanpot a month ago, what could have been a relaxing one-hor flight this morning was a nine-and-a-half hour nightmare on the bus last night. With the Crimson eliminated from playoff possibilities and--in effect-just playing out the string, these games are meaningless. If a possible playoff spot had been at stake, however, Cleary might have come under fire from the unknowing for his decision to use the one flight allowed by the athletic department earlier in the season...
Kentucky has been in 24 NCAA tournaments; UCLA in 20, and both will no doubt bus fans to regional sites and beyond. But to one small, all-black southern school, the NCAA tournament means more than pennant-waving and selling a few commemorative T-shirts. It has become a unifying force in a polarized state, a focal point for the emotion and loyalty of two and a half million people...