Word: eighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last time Yale played Harvard in Cambridge, when the Crimson tied for a share of the Ivy title, undergraduates only took between seven and eight thousand seats...
...nonviolent man in the world's most violent sport, Allen may be an anomaly. But he has long been regarded as one of the most brilliant tacticians in the game. After nine years as a small-college coach (Morningside in Iowa, Whittier in California), he served for eight years as an assistant to Head Coach George Halas of the Chicago Bears and was the architect of a stubborn defense that carried the Bears to the N.F.L. title in 1963; after the championship playoff, the Chicago players presented him with the game ball. Halas himself thought so much of Allen...
...self-made king, he falls into the first of his blindnesses, the idea that he can give away his possessions and his crown and yet retain power in his person alone. Cobb reveals how the fool in Lear is intrinsically a child. This 80-year-old is an eight-year-old in disguise, throwing temper tantrums against daughters whom he has naively empowered to switch roles with him. Regan and Goneril are, in effect, a stern, unyielding common mother fiercely chastising an obstreperous child. Cobb is equally good at conveying the sense of age: he is old inside as well...
...Homes Corp.'s prefabrication plant in Lafayette, Ind., shortly after midnight, laden with six-ton sections of ready-to-live-in housing. Their destination was a Chicago ghetto 125 miles away. Less than 24 hours later, tall cranes had plucked the sections from the trucks and stacked them into eight two-story, four-bedroom homes ready for occupancy...
Bonner, who at six feet, 185 pounds is two inches taller and 15 pounds heavier than Harrison, has racked up 730 yards in 100 carries to lead the Bruins to a 4-1 record. He has scored eight touchdowns, but Brown's high scoring offense also includes quarterback Bob Zink and halfback Tom Spotts...