Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson, junior defenseman Scott McCormack is out until mid-to-late February after suffering a collarbone injury in Harvard's 3-2 win over Vermont January 7. Junior Brian Popiel, who filled in for McCormack at Clarkson and St. Lawrence two weeks ago, is expected to be on the Crimson roster. Freshman Allain Roy (1.96 goals-against average) will start in goal...
...avalanche of campuswide publications dropped in house hallways, three students are found trapped inside their rooms since late 1988, their only contact with the world being Dial-A-Menu and the Action Man. One of the students exclaims, "What do you mean, George Bush endowed a Harvard chapter of Skull and Bones...
Dukakis said the uncertainty about state finances may also delay the recent tradition of having the Legislature vote on a local aid resolution in late February to let cities and towns know how much aid they can count on before the municipal budgeting season begins...
Wood burning in the late '80s is no more sensible or righteous than mountain climbing. There was an old gent in my town, died a couple of years back, who split and stacked huge piles of wood well past his 80th birthday. He had plenty of money and an unused oil furnace, but wood splitting felt right to him, made sense. For a time, during the trendy days of wood stoves, he was a hero. After wood stoves lost their vogue and he continued to split firewood, he was thought mildly eccentric. Then he died...
...remind myself of the old man. Myself and I, as it happens, are having a dialogue, somewhat testy, thoroughly familiar. It is 7:35 on a chilly morning in late fall, and I am swinging an 8-lb. splitting maul, breaking up oak and birch trunks. Myself is feeling sorry for himself. Our back is stiff from yesterday's firewood fun. Our right wrist, broken years ago in a skiing accident, signals that it is time to stop. Middle-aged men drag themselves through life like wounded bears, it occurs...