Word: ebb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some reason pre and post game activity reached a low ebb. A mild disturbance before the Yale game was the only bright spot, but most of the noise and spirit came from a hard core of beer-drinking Elis. Oldtimers sadly remarked that the days of Pogo riots will become legendary when the class of 1955 graduates, and Harvard apathy will even extend to riot-making...
What is more, in Western Europe as a whole the Communist position has deteriorated. All that this shows is that the relation between atomic power and the ebb and flow of Communism is complicated and indirect. There is no ground for Sen. Knowland's prediction that an atomic stalemate means the Communist conquest of the world...
...Paul Jordan watched grimly and vowed, "I'm going to see the day when they'll be sorry they tore down those stands." Today, as the varsity football team takes the field against Yale, his determined promise will be fulfilled. Coming here when Harvard football was at its low ebb, Jordan has rebuilt the entire football organization, and losses by such scores as 47-7 are just a bad memory. Jordan has been sometimes unpleasant, often gruff, always close-mouthed, but he has always been honestly confident...
There is a tide in the affairs of men, says the Bard, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Many students, whose incomes have been on the ebb for the past few years, have found good tidings...
...good deal of television seemed star-crossed last week-and the rest was tugged and buffeted by the ebb tides of summer...