Word: connecticut
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...life that began hard and was never less than challenging - her ability to thrive in good times and survive all the other times - demanded the strength and resilience of a creature sturdier than a house cat. A tiger, perhaps. When she died on Dec. 25 at 81 in Connecticut, she had been enticing and educating the public for more than 60 years. Kitt succumbed to colon cancer on Christmas day, just as thousands, perhaps millions of old-timers were playing some Yuletide CD containing her seasonal ode to seduction, Santa Baby. (See TIME's Top 10 Songs...
...hard-fought game, and we capitalized on our opportunities,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “The kids were ready to go. They played very alert, together hockey.”Just three days after being upset on the road by Connecticut, and falling out of the national polls for the first time in over six years, the Crimson came out firing against the Big Green. Harvard had to fight through nearly three minutes of penalty kill early in the first frame, after defensemen Kathryn Farni and Kati Vaughn were called for hooking. But as soon...
...hard-fought game, and we capitalized on our opportunities,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “The kids were ready to go. They played very alert, together hockey.”Just three days after being upset on the road by Connecticut and falling out of the national polls for the first time in over six years, the Crimson came out firing against the Big Green. Harvard had to fight through nearly three minutes of penalty kill early in the first frame, after defensemen Kathryn Farni and Kati Vaughn were called for hooking. But as soon...
...winless streak continues for the No. 9 Harvard women’s hockey team (4-5-3, 4-2-2 ECAC) after falling, 3-2, to the University of Connecticut (11-6-2, 4-4-0 Hockey East) yesterday afternoon in Storrs, Conn. “We came out really strong in the first period, and we just had a couple of defensive breakdowns that can be fixed with practice,” sophomore Kate Buesser said. “I don’t think it was a lack of effort, but there are some things that we have...
...contributions were significant: he came up with the iconic color scheme (pastel pink, baby-blue, indigo and bright red), devised the 50-point bonus for using all seven tiles to make a word, and conceived the name "Scrabble." The first Scrabble factory was an abandoned schoolhouse in rural Connecticut, where Brunot and several gracious friends manufactured 12 games an hour. When the chairman of Macy's discovered the game on vacation and decided to stock his shelves with it, the game exploded. By 1952, Brunot's homegrown assembly line was churning out more than 2,000 sets a week. Nearly...