Word: ems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pros couldn't have staged it better if they'd fixed it. The Harvard wrestling team winds up one of its best seasons in the last decade at 3:30 p.m. in the IAB, the opponent is Yale, and we're gonna kill 'em. Who could ask for anything more...
...rider. He does have his idiosyncrasies: he wears his stirrups somewhat longer than U.S. jockeys do, sits straighter in the saddle, uses his whip only as a last resort-a fact that does not escape the notice of trainers, who dislike having their horses abused. "Braulio treats 'em kinder," Willie Shoemaker once commented, "and they run kinder...
Vellucci declared that the dispute over manager had become a "drag 'em out ... dog eat dog" battle, and proposed that the nine councillors convene privately and agree to let Curry stay on until a suitable successor had been found. The DeGuglielmo majority voted this proposal down, and later, when Councillor Mahoney made a similar motion, it was also defeated...
...Bugs crawl into our surgical packs. Mud is everywhere." An earthier-or muddier-protest came from a jungle-hardened trooper in the 1st Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment, bivouacked with the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade. "Ya know, I been here for six weeks, and for five of 'em I've never been dry," he lamented. "If a man ain't wet with sweat, he's drenched with rain. Me clothes are rottin' and me boots are fallin' apart...
...funeral this year; of cancer; in London. He brought such knowledge and unabashed love of the Establishment to his broadcasts that Britons nicknamed him Bishop Dimbleby, Dick Dimbleboom and the Royal Plum Pudding-though he could, in a moment of off-mike irreverence, crack that "We marry 'em, we crown 'em and we bury 'em...