Word: halycon
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...years ago, Mike Donnelly--whose statue resides in Halycon Hockey House--scored the game-winning goal with three minutes left in the 1986 NCAA Ice Hockey Championship Game...
Most of the factors contributing to the halycon Republican forcast are demographically oriented Presently, the electorate is undergoing powerful transformations, and these changes tend to bolster the GOP's political stamina...
...plot of Rockey III serves as the only new addition. The movie begins with Rocky as a complacent and worshipped world champion; he lives in a mansion, drives a Model T around his grounds, and appears as a spokesman for American Express. Into this halycon world enters Clubber Lang (Mr. T), an enormous fighter who sports a mohawk. While Balboa runs around in designer suits, Lang really runs, getting in increasingly better shape as he climbs the boxing world's challenge ladder. Rocky agrees to fight Lang, taking on his former rival Apollo Creed as coach...
Rapidly the halycon days of leisurely warmth are approaching, when one can peal off his coat and relax on the banks of the Charles, of sensuous nights, when one can still peel his coat and gad about in open automobiles. Each year without fail the coming of spring means the return from hibernation of America's only nationally recognized institution. When you see pictures of broad-smiling, becapped youths and old young men in the papers who are reported to be "holding out", when mothers miss their offspring regularly in the long afternoons, when mayors start exercising their arm muscles...
Since the halycon days of the Twenties undergraduate interest in football has steadily decreased; while this may be attributed to indifference, the main reason is probably that the games are too expensive; and, since restricted incomes prevent the undergraduates from attending, they affect a spurious disdain for the sport. At present prices the cost of a football ticket is certainly prohibitive to many students. Hoping to remedy the situation, the Harvard Athletic Association announced this fall that tickets would be sold at two or more prices, lowering the rates on less desirable seats. This was done with the expectation...