Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cliff Alexander (Lowell)--Treasurer of Student Council; N.S.A. President; Union Committee Vice Chairman and Treasurer; House Athletics; Freshman basketball...
Hovering in the background of all this, is Vivian's widowed mother, an alcoholic since the death of the daughter who despised her ("My bird, my bird" . . . "She hopped from the cliff like a cricket"). Miss Dunnock seems uncertain whether she should be tragic or pitifully absurd, as she flings hot-dogs around the stage and talks of the husband who never loved her. In any case, she gets little sympathy, least of all from Mrs. Eastman Cuevas, who tells the widow who clutches her hysterically and begs her not to leave: "Stop brooding!", a line reminiscent of Charles Addams...
...House-College soccer, Branford slipped one goal past Bellboy goalie Cliff Alexander for the only score...
...named Croesus) first coined money, and Greeks fought Trojans over Helen of Troy (though prosaic modern historians insist that they really fought for control of the Dardanelles). Near one city alone-Izmir, the ancient Smyrna-are mosaics from the cave where sightless Homer strummed his lyre, cliff statues of the earth goddess Cybele, and a wall built by Alexander the Great...
...group of officers and G.I.s fought their way out of burning Taejon in that first grim month of the war; how he became separated from his party when he went to the help of a wounded man; how he lost touch with his aide; how he fell down a cliff while looking for water. For 35 days he wandered, dazed and hungry, begging food at farmhouses. Finally he was betrayed by a South Korean who led him into ambush...