Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eileen O'Rourke and Mary McCarthy were the hot shots from the outside for SMU, and when they missed, which was not often in the first half, the big SMU forwards were there to grab the rebounds and put in the follow...
Anyway, next time you want to get in good with the professor, grab your sneakers and head for Hemenway. The guy may not be able to explain the stock market but he could give you a few pointers on that turn-around jumper from the top of the key. AFTER DAY ONE AT THE EASTERNS 1.Harvard 105pts. 2.Princeton 82pts. 3.Navy 67pts. 4.Dartmouth 63pts. 5.Yale 63pts...
...face, while a new personal-best time might prompt an athlete to swim extra laps with seemingly endless energy. A euphoric basketball squad would rush onto the hardwood and mob each other with embraces when victorious, but when defeated the team would walk somberly to their locker room, grab a Coke and a pretzel, and hurry off to the solitude of a hot shower...
...Harvard downfall came in the longer events. With the exception of the 1000-yd. freestyle, the women could not grab a 1-2 or 1-3 finish to make up the 12-point deficit that they faced at the meet's halfway point. This shortcoming cost them the meet...
...scheduled airlines, though, are not all pleased. Charter carriers, they point out, do not have to provide year-round service on less popular routes. The newcomers, in the words of a Trans World Airlines executive, "skim the cream-run into the market, grab what they can in peak season and get out and into another market." To compete with the charter outfits, the scheduled lines claim they may eventually be forced to curtail their regular services. Possible result: lowered earnings for the big carriers, who have already had plenty of profit problems in recent years...