Word: croqueted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neither Harvard's planners nor Harvard's administrators, can say for sure whether Harvard's most prominent croquet court, lot 81, will emerge from the limbo that swallowed it after the commuter center plan faltered. Indications are that no long-term commitment of the land can be expected in the next five to ten years. The interim version of the planning office's "Long Range Plan for Harvard University and Radcliffe College in Cambridge and Allston" classifies the lot as being without any "foreseeable" prospect for future development. Supratik Bose, manager of long range planning, believes that Red Line subway...
...succumb to the alluring film, Red Top quickly emerges as a highlight of the rowing experience. The 16-mile trek out to the lighthouse and back, a typical early-morning fare in the workout menu, is somehow slightly sweetened by the thoughts of an afternoon round of croquet, lawn bowling or broth following the early evening row. Red Top puts back the old-styled gentlemanliness into rowing...
Racing in the Head of the Charles is like playing croquet. It has all the airs of a "gentleman's sport," but the winners are always the most cut-throat competitors...
Department figures show that sports clubs have increased in number from 11 in 1972 to 32 as of this month. Yovicsin said last week he is now preparing announcements of the formation of a croquet club...
...Louis Smith, 37, once attacked a girl with a croquet post and later murdered and raped a student nurse. For the past 18 years he has been confined in Michigan's Ionia State Hospital as a "criminal sexual psychopath." Last year he was told that brain surgeons at the highly respected Lafayette Clinic in Detroit might be able to heal his apparently incurable condition by psychosurgery, a controversial technique in which portions of the brain are destroyed (TIME, April 3, 1972). Smith agreed, but just before the planned operation, an activist attorney heard about it and filed a class...