Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With such a strong defense, the Crimson just needed its offense to kick in gear to produce some victories and it started on Sept. 29 against then-No. 17 Boston University as freshman Mike Peller scored unassisted in overtime...
...party indoors at the Boston Rock Gym (78 Olympia Ave., Woburn; (781) 935-7325; Monday, Wednesday and Friday 4 p.m. to 10 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday noon-10 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; required three-hour lesson Saturday and Sunday at 9 a.m., $55 including gear; parental waiver required for under 18; accessible by commuter line; call for directions). 14,000 square feet of indoor rock climbing. Faint of heart need not enter. Overhangs, arrets, clacks and the bouldering cave will challenge all thrill-seekers looking for a boost of adrenaline and a good sweat...
...last thing a man in distress wants to see coming over the horizon [to save him] is a feminist in battle gear," she said, eliciting chuckles from the crowd...
According to Rudenstine, it is only another couple years before Harvard will probably gear up for another fundraising extravaganza...
Fifties Guys are people who graduated from college in the years from the early Fifties to around 1965, when what is now spoken of as the Sixties started to get in gear. As a Fifties Guy myself, I can testify that going to college in that era had all the excitement of standing at the luggage carousel waiting for your bags to come off the plane...