Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year the Bulldogs and new head coach Tim Taylor are excited, and they sniff victory. The Elis have already won five games this season to surpass their victory total of last year's dismal 4-21 season and are optimistic about their remaining games...
...victory was a must win for Harvard after Tuesday's dismal performance against Boston College, a loss which left them in ninth place in the ECAC standings. But win they did, as Cleary's boys did everything they didn't do Tuesday including skate for the full 60 minutes...
First prize for the Best Individual Costume at the professional level goes without question to Fran Tarkenton, who looked more like a Lebanese dermatologist than a quarterback on Super Bowl Sunday. Fran had the advantage of working on his costume ahead of time, boning up for Sunday's dismal performance with a passing day in the NFC championship game two weeks earlier that was almost as bad. It was a Jekyll-Hyde job without peer...
...drifted into the stands and was torn apart by fans. The N.F.L. went superpatriotic in 1972, when it staged a flyover by Air Force jets, having arranged for a plane to peel off into the "missing man" formation while P.O.W. families looked on. There have been theatrics spectacular, displays dismal. This year it is all up to Walt Disney Productions, which will assure us that "It's a Small World" and a happy...
Never has a ski season in the West got off to a more dismal start. Skiing is a $475 million annual industry in the Western snow country of California, Colorado, Idaho and Utah, and resort owners from the Rocky Mountains to the Sierra Nevada count on taking in fully one-fourth of their profits during the holiday period between Thanksgiving and New Year's. Snow normally begins piling up by mid-November, and by Christmas it usually blankets the slopes in layers 40 to 50 in. thick...