Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's lines--all four of them--are "faster, speedier, and better passers than last year," according to Weiland. Most impressive is the sophomore line centered by Joe Cavanagh. He and his wings, Dan DeMichele and Steve Owen, scored 11 points in Saturday's rout with Cavanagh scoring three goals in the final period...
...charter member of "Cowards Anonymous," I wish that the nation's railroads would seriously consider stepping up their efforts to provide faster, more efficient travel service for us groundlings. There must be millions of us! I have taken my last flight! Having won an all-expense vacation in Mexico City recently, I came very close to abandoning husband, children and country because I lost my courage to fly home...
...that Nixon publicly made such a pledge. He was also elated. Nixon's statement, first of all, was a clear message to the Saigon government as well as Hanoi that the incoming Administration could not be played off against the outgoing one. From Nixon's viewpoint, the faster the war is settled, the better able he will be to unite the nation and put across his own programs...
Broad Backs. Though an unabashed paean to the mystique of pro football, the movie performs a mild disservice to the athletes themselves. Plimpton wrote of football players as sensitive people, worried about injuries and the challenge of younger, faster rookies, fearful of the day when the team could no longer use them, always inwardly satisfied by the crisp precision of a well-executed play. The Lions, playing themselves with obvious relish in the film, live up to the unfortunate image that the public expects-cretinous, backslapping behemoths...
...holding you away is almost exactly like the effect on a small thumbtack of the largest, most powerful magnet you've ever seen, at a fair or anywhere. You come screaming down to the ground at speeds that are constantly increasing themselves until they have you going much faster than you've ever known anything to move. And remember, when you started out, you, unlike the thumbtack, were not even so far away from what's pulling you in that you could see past its edge and around...