Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Minutemen had 30 returning lettermen (though many did not start in 1978). They had size and an experienced quarterback. They had a talented fullback in Cliff Pedrow, a former star Tiger fullback for my alma mater, White Plains High School. But Harvard had kept Pedrow to virtually nothing last year, and he was coming off a 100-yd.-plus multiple-touchdown day against Maine. Still, UMass was certain to be competent--in fact, they almost certainly would be a tough opponent...
UMass has traditionally had a strong running attack as the minutemen had three backs with over 500 yards in 1978, led by Dennis Dent with 1139. Dent is gone but Cliff Pedrow (582 yards last year) returns along with versatile quarterback Mike McEvilly...
...Mississippi, where Red Cross officials said 150,000 people had fled inland, tides six feet above normal hit Jackson County near the Alabama state line. Gov. Cliff Finch authorized the mobilization of the National Guard in Mississippi to assist local officials...
ENTER TO GROW in wisdom. Never take your steps for granted, young man. Look too far ahead of you and you'll walk off a cliff and break your ass. Hard. So you take it a step at a time, and don't look back until you finished the trail and it's time to digest some food. Look over your shoulder too early and you'll see a great gray blur and you'll git too dizzy too quick and fall 300 feet to the icy ground...
When the President gave his big speech he sounded like a Baptist minister, declared Cliff. He's the greatest President we've had since Nixon, offered Lou. Wait a minute, came another voice. What about Ford? He wouldn't like that. There was a little more Sanka and waves more of laughter among old friends...