Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Good, Quick, Hard...
Harvard coach Dana Getchell said, "When you're nursing a one-goal lead as Andover was, and you see it taken away by two good, quick, hard shots in fifteen seconds, it really takes the starch...
...expects his unbeaten team to face a rough test. "I think it's the best Andover squad I've faced in five or six years," Getchell said. "DiClemente [Andover's soccer coach] always gets his boys way up for this one," he added, "and I expect they'll fight hard and mark my forwards closely throughout the game...
...actually be true that men and societies reveal themselves most clearly in time of war. The murderers of Lidice would have been hard to detect in the streets of pre-1939 Berlin. Our own seemingly limitless capacity for killing Asians tells us something of what we are actually seeing when we travel across this country. And in the incredible debacle of the Light Brigade at remote Sebastopol, the inhumanity of mid-Victorian England was sharply illuminated...
...Hard work, however, has to be the big reason for Spengler's improvement. McCurdy calls him a "two hundred per center who just keeps on making hard efforts where others would shy away...