Word: lateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broke up a frustrating afternoon of defensive football marked by aggressive lines and a fierce wind that stopped punts and hindered passing. Harvard maintained a narrow offensive superiority throughout the game, but had to rely on Swinford's interception and a 30-yard scoring dash by halfback John Shipman late in the fourth quarter to emerge on top of the scoring column...
Another interception deep in Eli territory by Steve Cohen early in the fourth period set up the Crimson's second touchdown. Deitch snuck over from the one. Yale managed another late tally to end the scoring...
...this respect, as in so many others, the sculptor Maillol is comparable to Renoir, whose portrait he modeled superbly. Both maximized, late in life, a union of sensuosity and innocence which characterizes their work. Both were passionately fond of the beautiful, even of the pretty, and achieved a voluptuousness and bursting fullness which epitomizes the joy a poet finds in all nature. Both were especially involved with the rhythm of the female form. Maillol wrote, "Girlhood with its fresh bloom, its flowerlike innocence, its confidence in life, is for me the world's greatest wonder...
...long after his triumphant return from Danbury Prison to City Hall, the late James Michael Curley was visited, one afternoon, by three earnest young students bearing a heavy granite urn. They introduced themselves as Terence O'Shaughnessy, Denis McGillicuddy, and Patrick Xavier O'Donovan, all of Boston College. Their urn came from a prehistoric monument which had recently been uncovered in Ireland. They had brought it to Mayor Curley, they explained, because it was a discovery worthy of a great...
Rather, he passed day after day of unimpaired bliss, blithely assured that even if all was not well he at least walked in the sunlight. He didn't complain when his bus was late, when it poured on his way to Longfellow, or when he was trapped in Filene's revolving door. And the time his date's heel caught and broke in a streetcar track he cheerfully carried her home. He enjoyed House food, loved breakfasts at 8:15, and even liked the Lowell House bells. He read Thurber, collected Charles Addams, and was content to sit alone...