Word: knighting
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...while the Crimson did itself in by its anemic attack, the Rutgers offense did its share, giving the Harvard defense constant headaches with its fast breaks. The entire Scarlet Knight offense would head upfield the moment its goalie had the ball, creating many six-on-four chances, which produced nearly half the Rutgers fouls. Harvard goalie Tim Pendergast was understandably busy throughout the game, making 20 saves before Crimson Coach Bob Scalise gave back-up Mark Vita some playing time in the fourth quarter...
...Nabokov acknowledges, Don Quixote the novel may be flawed, but Don Quixote the man is permanent. The bony knight and his fat squire, Sancho Panza, are the most recognizable duo in all of fiction. The lecturer traces their "long shadow" through the works of such disparate men as Dickens, Flaubert and Tolstoy. Had he ventured only a little further, he might have found quixotic elements in the books of Saul Bellow, John Updike and Vladimir Nabokov...
...Nancy Lopez is married to Houston third baseman Ray Knight. while Ms. Morgan is the wife of National League umpire Dick Stello...
...sees Gilpin come through the window in his sailor's uniform to woo her away. She is all but ready to go when she learns that the shore patrol is downstairs and realizes that Gilpin has bragged about this escapade to everyone he knows. Once again, the knight-errant has undertaken his quest not in chivalry but in folly...
...need for, uh, elements of refurbishment and rehabilitation." One of the few Britons who did not join in the unkind laughter was the Queen. She went out of her way to get to know Annenberg better, and was so impressed that in 1976 she made him an honorary knight. That odd affinity between the prim and discreet Queen and the rough-hewn millionaire partly explains why she accepted his invitation to join him for lunch last week at his desert estate near Palm Springs. Another probable reason was royal curiosity about the estate itself. "So many members of her family...