Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before the well runs dry. Seeing an insolent knight in armor whacked down to a limbless torso may amuse the warped souls among us, but this sweeping satire of the Middle Ages soon exhausts the range of laughable subjects that kicked around in King Arthur's day. Scenes occasionally crop up that deserve a hearty guffaw; too bad they are so few and far between...
...becoming increasingly clear that Vietnam has not been able to reestablish its agricultural production as rapidly as it had hoped to, and that the Vietnamese will experience serious famine this year. Current reports indicate the rice crop will be two million tons smaller than last year's, or 20 per cent short of the normal Vietnamese harvest. It is therefore even more important than ever that the United States government begin at the earliest possible date to pay reparations to the country it spent nearly 20 years destroying, and immediately authorize funds and send foodstuffs to avert the impending famine...
...although the team has only one returning senior this year, a promising crop of freshmen and seven other returning members, plus newly built courts across the Charles at Soldiers Field, are enough to bring Captain Katie Ditzler to say, "I'm sure we can do ten times better" this year...
...been a very difficult summer," Watson acknowledges, as he has had to consider the vacancies for coaching spots in men's vasity basketball, women's crew, squash and tennis and an assistant slot on the men's swim team. The most serious vacancy to crop up, though, was a direct fallout of the athletic director controversy. Late last month Baaron B. Pittenger Jr., associate director of athletics and a leading contender for Watson's job, left Harvard to become director of publicity and special events for the United States Olympic Committee in New York...
Check out the schedule for instance. The first four games, why, it's as if Joe made it out himself. Two non-league games, and while I ain't gettin' on nobody's case, Columbia and Cornell ain't exactly what you'd call the cream of the crop. At least not this year...