Word: game
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Game marked the start of Harvard's Ivy season, and the end of its annual southern tour of duty. The record now stands at five wins and two losses...
...team then journeyed to Devon, Fla., and took a pair of games from Stetson University, 7-2 and 6-5. George Lalich won the first game with relief help from Gus Crim, and Ray Peters got credit for the second as Bob Lincoln and Robert Dorwart pitched the later innings...
Today's curlers slide a 44-lb. block of highly polished granite that looks like a wheel of cheese with a handle on top. And the game has evolved into a test that combines the finesse of golf with elements of lawn bowling, horseshoe pitching and pool-plus a dash of chess strategy. A rink (four-man team) scores one point for each stone it keeps closer to the bull's-eye than any rival stones. An expert curler can slide his stone more than 100 ft. down the ice with a spin so fine that it will...
Last week the game's best brooms were in Montreal, as teams from eight nations gathered for the tenth world championship. With the whole country watching on TV, Calgary's Ron Northcott rink took aim on the title that Canada has lost only twice-to a U.S. club in 1965 and to a Scottish team from Perth last year...
...paradox of freedom: when all things are possible, nothing is possible. Denied the abrasive stimulation of uncertainty and risk, his creativity grows sluggish. A trip to the gambling tables owned by The Firm proves to be an exercise in boredom. Life for Charlock is reduced to a finite game that, like ticktacktoe, is impossible to lose once the rules have been learned...