Word: failed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unpredictable. Just when Harvard appears to be breezing past its rival, a couple of fumbles or an interception will turn the game topsy-turvy. Just when the Crimson start to go down under, they'll recover a blocked punt in the other fellows' end zone. If the Crimson often fail to deliver the knockout blow, they're rarely dominated...
...afternoon offers other diversions. Keep an eye on the band. Its iconoclastic half-time shows sometimes miss their mark, but do provide welcome relief from high-stepping and intricate formations of the typical university band. Its second-half rendition of the Harvard fight song on emptied whiskey bottles never fail to inspire...
...inflation and bring the economy back into whack. And here in Cambridge, President Bok and the alumni fund-raisers for the Harvard College Fund will spend much of their 13th annual assembly brooding over what they will do in the coming year if Ford's crew continues to fail...
...conclusion of the game left much to be desired, but the Russians played us evenly throughout the contest. Interspersed with complaints about the officiating were proud boasts that "If we'd only had our good players like Walton there, we would have creamed them." My question is why people fail to notice and object to the ugly incentives the players qualified to participate in such a contest face. It is only a matter of pride for America to win the Olympic championship, but a lot of money is involved for UCLA if it wins its conference and then the NCAA...
...that streetcars in Arnhem were pale yellow; that Lieut. General Frederick Browning, deputy commander of the First Allied Airborne Army (and husband of Novelist Daphne du Maurier), wore spotless gray kid gloves and sat on an empty beer crate as his glider took him into battle. Nor does Ryan fail to mention the name of the beer (Worthington)-just as he identifies the typewriter (Olivetti) being tapped by a then U.P. correspondent named Walter Cronkite. Random, trivial, even compulsive, Ryan's facts eventually justify themselves as a fragmented tableau of that most fragmented experience: war. Here are just...