Word: game
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hornblower, where they once had four. The injury to Szaro, a football player considered to have as great a potential as anyone who ever entered Harvard, is especially grievous. The Polish immigrant and erstwhile soccer player, according to Yovicsin, has a great deal still to learn about the game, and will be badly handicapped by missing the September drills. Harvard fans will not forget, however, that Bobby Leo '66, as a highly touted sophomore, also missed the whole pre-season and then most of the regular campaign because of an injury, finally getting into the lineup in the seventh game...
...rated as a better blocker than pass receiver, is set back due to a nerve injury which is affecting his left arm and will keep him out of action for an unknown period. The odds are that his recovery will be in time for Holy Cross, the openning game...
...what he described as a "mutual-irritation society," which was largely a result of the pitcher's propensity for popping off about Tiger Stadium, Detroit fans, his teammates?and just about anything that came to mind. Denny became so annoying that after Detroit lost the 1967 pennant by one game, rumor had it that he was on the trading block...
Exhibit B: The Killing Game. A husband-and-wife team (Jean-Pierre Cassel and Claudine Auger) manufacture Superman-style comic strips for a living, but run out of super ideas. Just a pair of fun-loving kids, they hang around the studio playing with their mental blocks until a wealthy Swiss named Bob (Michel Duchaussoy) invites them to his chalet for a stay. What starts out as kicky soon becomes sicky. Bob is a paranoid who imagines that an organization is out to expunge him. Unfortunately, it is all in his imagination, and to comfort himself he zooms about...
...combined with the "innate and relentless expansionism" of the frontiersman, it becomes clear that "it was just not in [Americans'] dynamic temper to become the peaceful Swiss of the Western Hemisphere." Yet Americans, De Riencourt insists, have been "fundamentally reluctant" imperialists. They have not really played the game of colonialism, which he defines as an ephemeral grab for pseudo empire. The problem is that history has given them no choice. Though there might once have been another option, this century's two world wars destroyed the chance for a united Europe and thrust the U.S. into the power...