Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Withstanding the Nixon landslide remarkably well, Democrats managed to keep control of both houses of Congress, and they are in far better shape than the Republicans were after the 1964 Goldwater fiasco...
...last seconds. Yet, in the four League games this season, Harvard hasn't broken any long touchdowns at all, and I doubt that many of the fans who have sat through the last few seasons of Harvard football expected the Crimson to salvage last week's Penn fiasco with an outburst of late game scoring...
Wilson says that these factors, and not McGovern's later problems such as the Eagleton fiasco, have been the cause of his failure. He believes the campaign has not been able to produce any substantive issues, and sees "not much difference" between the two candidates' positions on Vietnam...
...other side of the coin, of course, landed in the opening game fiasco with UMass. The Amherst contingent ran roughshod over the Harvard defense for 367 yards total offense, and 210 of those yards came from Pennington's deadly right arm. The Crimson secondary could not blunt the UMass serials, and the Harvard zone was thoroughly ineffective. Pennington was irrepressible against Harvard, hitting the quick slant pattern at will. These thrusts into the belly of the zone accounted for over 150 yards alone. The rest of the Harvard defense had its share of lapses too, and the Crimson gave...
Today, the band can safely afford to be as obnoxious as ever. Harvard may not be overwhelming, but B.U. is hopelessly had. The Terriers might get up for the game, but after last week's fiasco against UMass. Harvard won't slouch on to the field. One Boston reporter commented, "After seeing Harvard lose to UMass, B.U.'s terrified that Harvard's gonna kick...