Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spent much more time in the penalty box than Northeastern, but this only gave the Crimson more opportunity to demonstrate their superior speed and agility. Kinasewich's displays of dribbling not only delighted the large crowd in Watson, but served to run out minute after minute on the penalty clock...
...honors without a thesis is superbly trivial: the issue behind CLGS is freedom from departments, not within them. It is the honored but apparently dispensable assumption that a Harvard student is old enough to decide what he will or won't, can or can't do. Cutting nine o'clock classes is a horrible temptation; ignoring reading lists is a lure of fearsome evil; and apparently the possibility of taking a degree in General Studies is as serious a threat to academic integrity as cheating on exams: papa department must come to the rescue...
...speaker is talking too long or to no point, De Gaulle drums his fingers irritably on the table. When he has heard enough, he declares crisply, "Eh bien, messieurs, nous avons terminé." Barracks Vocabulary. Lunch (appetizer, meat or fish, salad, dessert, two wines) starts at 1 o'clock and is usually a working meal, attended by Elysée aides and outside guests...
...dotes on a special beef stew that the family calls "stewed Salan's head.'' Dinner over, De Gaulle may watch a private screening of a movie (preferably a comedy) or sit with Yvonne before the television set, like any bourgeois couple, until his 11 o'clock bedtime. There is a certain displeasure in France because 62-year-old Yvonne "does not play the President's wife." Self-effacing, silent, withdrawn, Mme. de Gaulle so avoids publicity that she is one of the most anonymous of all the wives of world leaders. A devout Roman Catholic...
...quick end to its futile possession-play strategy, but Harvard was able to tighten the score to 43 to 41 with the clock showing 4:30. Then the roof fell...