Word: flushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dartmouth. Since then, though, Crimson stock has climbed steadily, and by pacing all other Ivy colleges in the recent IC4A championships, the Varsity served notice that its wartime possum-playing days are over. Now, although the spring curtain-raiser is still a flock of shinsplints away, the first flush of competitive fever is swooping over the Varsity track scene...
Each man had to wait his turn to come in on the flush. Morey, Jim, and I each had our turn and got our birds. It was Stan's turn next, which turned out to be Red's. Remembering the bad time the birds had given him last year, and by studying each bird he ran to cover and by watching how each one acted, he doped out a way to catch the bird in flight. He also found that if he got in a certain position he could make that bird come out where he wanted...
When he heard me say we only had two to go, he must have figured he had better get in his licks. We continued down a rice check. Red ran to cover a cock pheasant and came to point. Stan walked in for the flush with his gun in position. I gave the signal and out came the bird. With a leap and a bound, Red made a perfect catch in the air. Everyone was surprised and began to kid Stan, saying that he would have missed anyway, so we gave Red credit for the save. Not thinking Red would...
...already preparing an attractive blurb for his book: "It will be a history of human civilization with emphasis on health and medicine. It will tell what people in the various civilizations ate and wore. It will tell what kind of houses the Egyptians lived in and whether they had flush toilets. That is important...
Both Green and Crimson outfits will defend unsmirched Intercollegiate records tonight, and both are flush from defeating Navy on consecutive evenings last weekend. The Middles scored two more points opposing Ulen's men than against Karl Michael's Hanoverians...