Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...curious fact was noticed during the Harvard-Yale game, according to a dispatch from New Haven to a New York paper: Just before Yale made her second touch down an engine on the Connecticut River road which stood on a siding near the grounds blew out an immense ring of smoke. It floated over the field a perfect O. As it sailed over the Harvard eleven Yale scored the touch down, and as McClung kicked the goal the ring gradually broke and spread into a distant Y over the Yale team...
...Brown's incompetence notwithstanding, Harvard made the Bruins pay for every mistake, putting the game out of reach with remarkable dispatch. In fact, the ease with which Joe Restic's charges killed off the Bruins made the tie with Princeton and the subsequent demise of Harvard's title hopes all the more frustrating...
...this land was cleared then, you could have seen the brief battle. And if you had stood for a little while after the battle, you would have seen--so legend has it--a young boy, hired hand in a nearby farm, happen by, axe in hand, and dispatch a wounded Redcoat. The excesses of revolutionaries are not peculiar...
Like last year when the Crimson held opponents to well under two goals a game, the defensive quartet whould dispatch their duties quietly and efficiently. Duggan is both the physical and emotional leader of the squad, and over the course of last year developed into the defensive enforcer any successful team needs, especially in the defense-minded Ivy League...
...bulk of the task force stood at least 100 miles off the African coastline, two destroyers slipped into the northern reaches of the Gulf of Sidra, with the mission of patrolling the southern perimeter of the exercise and watching for stray missiles. As Washington was purposefully aware, the dispatch of the two ships was a sensitive move: the Gulf of Sidra, albeit in contravention of prevailing international agreements, is claimed by Libya, a country the U.S. considers an outlaw nation...