Word: calvinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kennedy's touch football, Truman's piano playing. Hoover took to fishing and throwing a medicine ball, though not at the same time. Nixon had no hobbies to speak of, unless one counts the knotting of one's ties. The most interesting pastimes were those of Calvin Coolidge, who reportedly took pleasure in the mechanical horse and pitching hay. The former probably delimited the demands of the latter...
Still, the Crmson had a chance to snatch the win from Dartmouth in the closing minutes. Trost had a four-footer with about a minute to play, cutting the lead to two. Then senior Calvin Dixon made his experience work to Harvard's advantages as he cannily drew a charging foul that gave possession to the Crimson with 51 seconds left...
Point-man Calvin Dixon led the way, zipping no-look passes and driving through Jiangsu defenders to net lay-ups or dish off to a teammate for an easy bucket. Dixon led the transition with his now-you-see-it-now-you-don't sleight of hand, dazzling the slower and less graceful Chinese...
Fleming had the power to spark the Crimson with power baskets and crowd-pleasing blocks, momentum switchers necessary for a team to fight back against a rallying opponent. Now the burden of court leadership falls on the shoulders of Co-Captain Calvin Dixon and junior front-counters Joe Carrabino and Monroe Trout...
...issued uneventfully into the governance of Calvin Coolidge," writes Russell Baker in this beguiling memoir...