Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certainly increased the decible level. Danehy has been leading the fight against the MBTA since it started and he maintains that the MBTA is out to force this project on the Cambridge community, any way it can. Cambridge is his lifelong home and Danehy pictures himself as the knight in shining armor, come to save the innocent maiden. Like others, the mayor can perceive the long-term advantages that extension offers but he hesitates to sanction the "destruction of Mass. Ave. for five years or more...
...good moments were too few and too far between, and even they were soured by embarrassing sequences such as the White Knight's and the Fawn's, both played by Ben Schatz, when the script, music and acting combined to explore the depths of gooey and contrived sentiment. The Fawn sequence was marred not so much by the flowery romanticism of the song as by the Fawn's weird behavior upon discovering that Alice is a human child. He runs off stage acting as if he were trying to keep himself from commiting an unnatural act, and only the most...
...Crimson's momentum was on the ebb, but with 4:45 left in the quarter, the tide turned. Brown went into punt formation at its own 19-yd. line, but All-Ivy center Mike Knight's snap sailed over punter Larry Carbone's head and out of the endzone for a safety...
...accused Karpov's assistants of sending the champion coded instructions inside snacks that he nibbled at during games. Complained Korchnoi: "A yogurt after 20 moves could mean 'We instruct you to decline a draw,' or a dish of marinated quails' eggs could mean 'Play knight to knight five at once.' " Thereafter, officials limited the champion's snacks to a single flavor of yogurt...
...Krueger, who has been campaigning like a whirling dervish since last year, might just pull out a victory. Even if he does, the nation is unlikely to see any substantial change in Texas's leadership on economic issues. And Lone Star liberals will still be waiting for the knight on a white horse who will save them from pissants and pablum...