Word: laterizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past several seasons using a rough defense-oriented style that seems to throw Harvard off its precision, position-play strategy quite often. Last winter, the Bruins held a 6-4 advantage over the Crimson at Meehan Rink before succumbing in overtime, and when the two squads met in Cambridge later in the season, it was nearly the same thing although Harvard won a little more comfortably...
Nader was able to force off the market General Motors' Corvair, which was withdrawn from production this year. Corvair's sales had plunged by 93% after Nader condemned the car as a safety hazard in his bestseller, Unsafe at Any Speed. That influential book, and Nader's later speeches, articles and congressional appearances, also forced the Department of Transportation to impose stricter safety standards on automobile and tire manufacturers...
...Later, at Harvard Law School, Nader was passed over for the staff of the prestigious Law Review, but became editor of the school's issue-oriented newspaper. One of his articles was "American Cars: Designed for Death." After graduation, he pursued his growing interest in highway safety while working as an aide to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then an Assistant Secretary of Labor, and he later expanded his law-school article into Unsafe at Any Speed. The book, published in 1965, was dedicated to a friend who had been crippled in an auto accident. It is a shocking indictment...
...Later this season, when Dorothy and her friends again gather in Oz on their annual TV rerun, only the singing of Over the Rainbow will be more fondly familiar to Americans than the sight of the Cowardly Lion in his boxer's stance, hopefully spluttering "Put 'em up. Put 'em uuuup." Bert Lahr played the lion, of course, and like all his performances, it bore the mark of a unique talent. Most comedians rely principally on their tongues, and Lahr's scratchy voice, wobbly warble and gnong, gnong, gnong earned their share of laughs...
Thirty minutes later, the students left through the back entrance of the club, many covering their faces with scarfs and coats, and rushed across the Yard to University Hall...