Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Travel Guide, embracing every single land between its covers; 2) our very recent survey disclosed that a whopping 83% of its users are repeat readers; 3) when the President of Italy so generously bestowed upon me the Ordina al Merita della Repubblica, it wasn't the Grand Cross, which normally is reserved for chiefs of state and ambassadorial-level diplomats. Since we are naught but toilers in the travel-writing vineyards, the grade is Cross of Commander (Comendador)-which the British and various other governments classify as "Knight Commander...
After the Holy Cross game the Crimson began to roll. Week after week the victories piled in, each more surprising than the last. The key to any undefeated season is not to think about it. Take each game as it comes and play your best football. For the Harvard eleven this was easy. Each Saturday they were faced with a challenge, and no defeat could have been considered an upset...
...star quarterback Marty Domres took some wind out of the new Crimson sails. The skeptics reappeared as Harvard won by only one touchdown, 21-14. Sloppy football was the pundits' watchword and again Big Hole appeared in the lineup. But the pundits didn't know how lasting the Holy Cross half-time magic was and were caught by surprise as Harvard downed Cornell 10-0 and Dartmouth 22-7 in successive weeks...
Before I knew it, I was on strike myself, having been taught at an early age never to cross a picket line and the lesson having struck. I wondered for a spell whether a New York City teacher ought to adhere to this rule, but then sat back and proceeded to enjoy to prospect of not attending classes--in contrast to Harvard-perusual, where I failed to attend them but got depressed about it. As the next logical step, I began to absorb the issues of the strike--ROTC, Afro-American Studies, expansion--and could see nothing objectionable...
President Pusey got an honorary degree from Holy Cross College. Speaking to the Holy Cross convocation, Pusey said that colleges should "rejoice" when their students "insist on seeing their private goals in social terms...