Word: fell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five southern matches, tilts that don't count for the record, did not go well for the Crimson. After turning the Rambling Wreck of Georgia Tech into just a plain wreck, 7-2, Fish's charges fell to Georgia...
...sister aircraft that had so disastrously converged in the distant Canary Islands fell victim to split seconds of bad luck. There was every evidence that KLM Pilot Veldhuizen had heroically pulled the nose of his huge craft abruptly into the air to leapfrog over the Clipper. Pilot Grubbs was also violently yanking his ship to the left to get out of the way. Experts estimate that the KLM plane needed only 25 ft. of added altitude to avoid the collision, saving the Pan Am passengers. Whether Veldhuizen could have controlled his plane to avoid crashing is questionable. "He probably knew...
...century French authors, shows that it was politics more than literature that made Hugo a living myth. After Louis Napoleon Bonaparte betrayed the republic in his 1851 coup d' état, the writer, originally a Bonaparte supporter, raged against the new emperor from exile. When Napoleon III finally fell in 1870, Olympic returned a hero...
...SUMMER between high school and college, I fell in love. Fortunately, I didn't get the girl pregnant. Had that happened, the summer might have been so traumatic I'd have been inspired to write a book about it called The Only Thing I've Done Wrong. It didn't happen to me, but it may have happened to John Jay Osborne Jr. '67. Whether it did or not, Osborne wrote a novel based on that scenario of love and trauma and he called it, well, you can guess...
Predun's outburst fell one point short of the Harvard record established by Grady Watts, Harvard's leading career scorer, in 1960 and tied 12 years later by John Hagerty in the annual rout over perennially overmatched MIT. Those two players were attackmen; Predun's effort was the best ever by a Harvard midfielder...