Word: cinder
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...gave the trackmen a perfect record on the outdoor season and the last cinder defeat suffered a Harvard squad--a 76-73 loss to the cadets last spring...
...Soldiers' Field at about 3 p.m. today, the track team begins its semi-annual, to-day demonstration of supremacy among Boston area cinder squads...
...other fanned out beside it) that might seem the essence of grace in a Kabuki dancer but stir less enthusiasm when performed in a crowded ladies' room, look downright insane in a restaurant. Worse still are the moments when removal is imperative due to a flying cinder or a sudden slip of a lens, or almost impossible (on a street corner, in a snowstorm); shrewd lensmen wear sunglasses on all outdoor excursions, preferring to be thought phony rather than weepy...
...most detailed information man has ever collected about his planet's nearest neighbor. And they are already shattering some long-held theories. Ranger's lunar snapshots, says Dr. John A. O'Keefe of Goddard Space Flight Center, prove that the moon has not been a dead cinder ball for billions of years, as many astronomers believe. In fairly recent times, it seems to have stirred with volcanic activity...
...call on Professor Peter Alexander, even in the glass and cinder block guest suite on the top floor of Leverett House F Tower, is to walk into another world. You knock; he opens the door. "Professor Alexander?" you say. "Yes," he says, and blinks. "Won't you come in? Will you have some ginger beer?" You try to explain why you have come, but he waves you to a chair, apologizes for having nothing but ginger beer, and asks you won't you have some. Only after you are seated and have at least refused his offer, are you allowed...