Word: fells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...closely-packed runners continued to string out as the footing worsened on downhill stretches, and Potteti gradually fell back to seventh place. He remained in that position to the finish, crossing the line in 25:14, a creditable mark under the conditions...
Losing its speed advantage to injuries and a slippery turf, the Crimson fell two goals behind at the half. Army center forward Bob Behncke made both scores unassisted. On the first, he simply penetrated Harvard's defense and booted the ball past goalie Locksley. A Crimson infraction in the penalty area gave Behncke a free kick, which he converted for the second goal...
...content, but Nabokov uses his style to create a believable man, charming and pathetic. Having just fallen down a flight of stairs and flat on his back. Pnin remarks, "It is like the splendid story of Tolstoy--you must read it one day, Victor--about Ivan Ilyich Golovin who fell and got in consequence kidney of the cancer...
...Crimson has already met and defeated four of the invited teams. Tufts, Dartmouth, Holy Cross, and Princeton all fell in earlier games this season. Entries from Fairfield, Fordham, and Brown complete the tournament roster...
Their dishonesty fell into two main patterns. They willfully blinkered themselves against the fact, obvious to Orwell, that British society and ultimately the socialist movement itself rested on imperialist exploitation and the comparative prosperity it conferred on worker and capitalist alike. Dishonesty also expressed itself in the left by a simultaneous clamor for a "strong line" against Hitler (read "war") and demands for peace and disarmament. The British intellectuals, wrote Orwell in August 1941, "for ten dreadful years have kept it up that Hitler is merely a figure out of comic opera. All this reflects is the sheltered condition...