Word: cayuga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joseph Cyr of the Royal Canadian Navy. Demara's medical training consisted of a basic course in the U.S. Navy's hospital school, ten months as a hospital orderly in Boston, amplified by voracious reading of medical texts. Nevertheless, when assigned to Korean waters aboard the destroyer Cayuga, he performed such prodigies of battle surgery -an emergency amputation, the extraction of a bullet from the heart sac itself -that Cyr's story was published in Canadian newspapers. The real Dr. Cyr heard about...
...opposition. Yale lost its famous Olympic stern pair through graduation, and several other key men through injuries, but they too have a squad with a depth which could easily turn out a powerful varsity boat. On last year's performance both Cornell, which swept the IRA regatta on Lake Cayuga last June, and Pennsylvania must be rated as strong rivals...
Then, too, there are those who remember the rainy day last spring when the varsity baseball team was sent off for an away game at Cornell. A telephone call to Ithica, prior to departure time, was ruled out--apparently for seasons of "protocol." When the players arrived at Cayuga's waters and found playing conditions impossible, they were forced to turn around and fly right home. The whole fruitless venture cost $1000 in airplane tickets...
...Cayuga's waters reverberated with the aftermath of Friday's riot in which 1500 Cornell students splattered the Dean of Men, Frank C. Baldwin, with an egg. The students were protesting a proposed ruling that co-eds no longer be permitted to attend unchaperoned parties in off-campus rooming-houses...
Long have the men from Cayuga's waters unrestrainedly enjoyed the pleasures of wine, women and song. So long indeed, that the slogan "Freedom and Responsibility" has come to mean "Freedom from Responsibility" or "Laissez-faire" when applied to social life...