Word: citadel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Harvard's cagers were faring poorly in Columbia, S.C., the Columbia Lions were also down South playing at nearby Greenville in the Poinsetta Classic. The Lions are for real this year. They beat The Citadel and Furman to take the tourney. Columbia's last victory in a tournament game came on December 30, 1972. Their last tournament championship was the 1967 Holiday Festival, when the current batch of four sophomore starters were in fourth grade and Tom Penders was a high school coach in Connecticut...
Byrd was voted MVP in the Poinsetta after scoring 25 points with 13 assists against Furman in the final, while Free carded 29 points. Against The Citadel Bulldogs, soph Kevin Donohue, who shattered all of Bill Bradley's Missouri high school scoring records, hit 11 of 19 shots from the field...
...praise unto the Lord. Young men dreamed lusty dreams, while the elders spake of a day at hand when multitudes would flock from near and far to lavish shekels upon the once-more blessed shore. The place of Atlantis would be born again, said the prophets, as a citadel of many marvels, and it would be called Las Vegas East...
...devotion to the country and service grew in the great military academies, Virginia Military Institute and the Citadel of South Carolina. Recalls Atlanta Journal Editor Jack Spalding: "There was a time when all Southerners understood the need for military force. It may be educated out of them in places, but there are still the basics here. We are close to the soil, more religious, and know what guns are for and why they must be used sometimes...
...respectability has embittered and demoralized the West Berliners who remain stranded 110 miles from the nearest Western border, and who are exposed daily to Communist pressures that sporadically explode into major incidents. Although kept alive by massive infusions of money from Bonn, West Berlin is languishing. Once a vibrant citadel, it has acquired a glum and shabby look. Even the famous Kurfurstendamm has only about six blocks of tourist-attracting brightness, and the rest looks run down and dreary...