Word: icing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trick is to stay just short of disaster, taking the steeply banked turns as high as possible (so as to pick up speed on the way down), threading an absolutely straight course through the narrow straightaways, where a momentary miscalculation will slam the sled into a solid wall of ice...
Theodore Hesburgh, 48, Notre Dame. Freewheeling and decisive, he roams from Taiwan paddy fields to ice floes in Antarctica, retains an amazing grasp of detail of all he sees and hears, and considers his latest project, organizing an ecumenical study institute in Jerusalem, "a very big thing-but something you do before breakfast." He is a member of the National Science Board, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, consultant to the State Department. He spends 120 to 150 days a year off campus...
Gordy Price padded the margin five minutes before the period ended, with the Huskies again down a man. His long skimmer flipped cleanly under Northeastern's screened goalie, and Harvard took a 3-1 lead off the ice...
...sophomore defenseman broke down the ice on the right and caught Northeastern napping. Carr rifled a forehand a foot off the ice that beat goalie Gary Thornton to the far side...
Then, suddenly, Penn turned ice cold. The Quakers scored only six points during the first ten minutes of the second half. In the meantime, though, Harvard was playing as if had never seen a zone defense before. The Crimson had to work the ball around for a full minute before getting a clear 20-foot shot. Harvard made its rally at a snail's pace, and got within two points with ten minutes left...