Word: fieldings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saturday, September 23, the Stadium: As the Holy Cross defense lines up for the first play of the game, a large boulder falls from the sky and lands on the field, creating a crater the size of Tony Mandarich. The Crusaders trip and fall in. Harvard runs up the score...
Saturday, October 14, Ithaca: Cornell Coach Jack Fouts over-sleeps and forgets to wake up his players. The Crimson plays the Big Red field hockey team. Jim Reidy notches a hat trick. Harvard 4, Cornell...
Last week a new high roller appeared on the scene when JVC, the Japanese consumer-electronics company that developed the VHS format for videocassettes, said it will spend more than $100 million to launch Largo Entertainment, a filmmaking company to be run by veteran producer Lawrence Gordon (Die Hard, Field of Dreams). JVC will give Gordon, 53, a former president of 20th Century Fox Films, a free hand in managing the new company while splitting the profits evenly with him. Gordon plans to make three movies in 1990 and five to eight pictures a year thereafter...
...also had some secret weapons: a radar warning system that the Germans greatly underestimated, and the Operation Ultra computer that broke most German military codes, particularly those of the Luftwaffe.) The outnumbered British fought with a kind of desperation that inspired Churchill to say of them, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many...
...city was two-thirds surrounded by German troops, the sky was lit up with artillery fire, and there, at the Ritz, everything was as it had always been: waiters in tails, the food, the wine. The proprietor asked us to sign his guest book. Years later, I learned from Field Marshal Rommel's chief of staff that he and Rommel were the next ones to sign, a few days later...