Word: conn
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...bleachers of the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Conn. You are waiting for the game--no, The Game--to begin. You would be warmer if you were lying naked atop an igloo, you think. And, still, you think, it is worth it. It is worth losing a few toes over. This game means something. This game is for the Ivy League championship. This is The Game...
...LONDON, Conn.--For the 123rd time, the Harvard and Yale crews lined up here on the Thames River...
Ronald Reagan was supposed to focus his commencement address at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., on the Moscow summit. Instead he talked almost entirely about drugs. The President attempted to drain some political emotion from the subject by calling for a bipartisan commission to study what could be done (ignoring the fact that antidrug programs already enjoy wide bipartisan support in Congress). Bush, meanwhile, toured a crack den in Los Angeles that had been closed by police raids and tried to sound tougher on drugs than anybody else -- including his chief...
...precocious and pretty 17-year-old when he arrived on the New York literary scene in the early '40s. (He came by way of Greenwich, Conn.; his mother had married a prosperous New York businessman named Joe Capote, who turned out to be a kindly stepfather.) Capote wangled a job at The New Yorker, and at night wrote and overwrote fevered, delicate, swamp-baroque stories that were skewed images of Monroeville. On the strength of one story in Mademoiselle, Random House signed the new phenom to a book contract...
Playing in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, the men's soccer team manages to get past the University of Connecticut, 1-0, even though the game is played in front of 8000 viscious Huskie partisans in Storrs, Conn. David Kramer scores the game-winner...