Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mobs of eager Christmas shoppers entered department store aisles as fast as The Santa Corporation's line of products expanded, and as the company grew and the ingenious elves kept finding better and more efficient ways of making presents, the land's standard of living grew, too. No citizen of Santaland, as it came to be known, ever needed to worry about food or shelter after The Santa Corporation hit its stride...
Five minutes into the game it looked as if the sparse crowd in the leaky fourth-floor gym would be safely ensconced before their T.V. sets long before the Dolphins-Colts 9 p.m. kickoff. The Crimson zone defense kept the poor-shooting Huskies well out of range and Caryn Curry and Wendy Carle were able to score at will over the Northeastern zone...
Northeastern's Paula Sternite and Beth Peterson scored six points apiece in the debacle but the key to the Husky rally (or Crimson fold) was Harvard's listless play. The Crimson defenders kept their hands at their sides and couldn't move their feet fast enough to keep up with the Husky's perimeter passing which resulted in open shots from the free-throw line for Sterite and Peterson...
...overtime the quality of game improved little but the score kept the fans, bolstered by an impatient intramural crowd, waiting for the end. Karen Spencer notched a lay-up, then Peterson made good on four straight free throws for the Huskies. But Sue Field replied with one free throw, missed the second, then was fouled again and sunk the first end of the one-and-one with a rollodrome special. But this time, down with Meredith, she missed the second end and it was double overtime...
...Crimson divers remained true to past years' form by thoroughly dominating both diving events. Harvard's top-notch diving coach John Walker has kept his very talented corps of acrobats virtually intact, providing a big boost to his colleague Bernal. Sophomore Steve Schramm, a high school All-American, further increased Harvard's bulging lead by nailing down both the required and optional events...