Word: gallanting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next few years, Dubuffet worked the back streets of Paris, painting little bistros and corset shops, jazz combos, and a host of men and women in the misery of routine (Woman Removing Her Chemise, Gallant Woman Removing Her Panties). There were also closeups of earth and paintings resembling graffiti, the rude scribblings found on walls throughout the ages. In 1944 Dubuffet got his first Paris show. Even for a city that had just been liberated, this was almost too much freedom to bear...
Thus the Crimson's gallant bid to retain its title in the face of prohibitive odds fell short. Coach Bruce Monro's varsity began to fly danger signals in its 7-3 win over Columbia, and it seemed that the roof fell in as the Crimson bowed to Dartmouth, 5 to 3. Still, a triumph Saturday would have kept the Crimson hopes alive, and it almost materialized...
Clearly, the Crimson is going to need a gallant effort, and the insides and half-backs will have to run themselves ragged in order to keep pressure on Princeton and still contain the Tiger offense. With the Ivy limit of 16 players in force, nobody is going to feel much like making the party circuit after the game, but an Ivy League championship--especially a third one in a row--does not come easy...
...field, then run every man into the ground. Coming around the turn, he accelerated past the leaders and headed for home at a clip that seemed to have him leaning backwards as his feet tried to run out from under him. Germany's Carl Kaufmann made a gallant dive at the tape, but Davis won in 44.9 sec. to break the world record...
...became the first American woman ever to cast a vote in an election. Twenty years later, Congress threatened to block Wyoming's admission as a state because of the local suffrage law, and Wyoming's worried territorial delegate wired home for official guidance. Back came the gallant telegraphed answer: "We may stay out of the Union a hundred years, but we will come in with our women...