Word: herd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Herd is the word," bellowed all of the assembled Harvard cross country runners, both male and female, varsity and junior varsity. Meanwhile, the black and blue Tigers tucked their tails between their legs and slunk quietly homeward...
...came out of the start steaming. There were lots of red jerseys out front right at the beginning and McNulty decided "to go ahead and try to break them other guys (from Princeton and Yale) right away." The strategy worked. By the one-and-a-half-mile mark, the Herd held the top five slots. "It was a little bit surprising to be in such good shape," Fitzsimmons admitted later...
...protected species list since 1914. Lately, however, British fishermen have complained that the voracious mammals have been eating too much of the depleted whitefish and salmon stocks in North Atlantic waters. The government's Scottish Office, with headquarters in Edinburgh, agreed with the fishermen that the seal herd must be thinned out. It called on the Norwegians, armed with 7.62 mm Mauser rifles and 4-ft. pickax bludgeons known as hakapiks, to dispatch 900 mother seals and 1,700 fluffy white pups in the first phase of the culling program. Local hunters have been licensed to kill...
Well, Harvard still has a coach for the thinciads, as the Herd swept 2,3,4 and 5 on their way to the team's first victory over Dartmouth in three years. Once again the senior trio of Meyer, Ed Sheehan and Peter Fitzsimmons showed the way as they led the scoring...
Dartmouth broke out quickly, rather than lying in the weeds until the giant hill at the four-mile mark and passing their competition. At the end of the first mile, the Herd was in trouble as green jerseys predominated in the front of the pack...