Word: dixons
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DIED. Robert E. Dixon, 75, retired rear admiral who as a Navy pilot in World War II radioed the famous message, "Scratch one flattop," that signaled the sinking of the first Japanese carrier by American warplanes; of cancer; in Virginia Beach, Va. In May 1942 Dixon commanded dive-bomber squadron V52 when 93 American planes attacked the light carrier Shoho during the Battle of the Coral...
...Crimson, composed mainly of underclassmen, sorely missed the leadership and full ability of its three injured seniors--captain Adam Dixon, Keck Shepard and Peter Johnson. The superlative Dixon, out since the second meet with an injured knee, did not even make the trip, and Shepard was prevented from running because of a serious groin pull. Johnson, a gutsy Eliot House resident, ran in the meet despite a sore ankle but finished near the end of the pack...
Three years ago, as a freshman, Bridgeland played varsity tennis for Harvard, before the arrival of All-American Howard Sands and other heavily recruited players who last season led the team to a berth in the NCAA championships. And as he left the Palmer Dixon courts on Thursday, Bridgeland paused for several silent minutes to watch the "A" squad warm up. Earlier, he had provided a perfect caption for the scene: "I keep playing for a lot of reasons, but I guess most of all there's a feeling that you could still be competitive and win a big match...
Jelly recorded a 27:02 to finish twelfth, while Andy Gerken, Eric Schuler, Adam Dixon and Bruce Weber all registered times under 27:35 to claim the fourteenth through seventeenth places for the Crimson...
...Only Dixon's race was encouraging. The senior co-captain has been out of practice for three weeks with a knee injury, and in the final ten yards of yesterday's run, he slipped and fell. But Dixon quickly recovered his balance before anyone had passed him, and proceeded to cross the finish line...