Word: lau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Junior John Hynes, who received a severe baptism in the varsity nets last season but still wound up with the third best goals-against average in the Ivies, was beaten out at least for the moment by freshman Wade Lau for the starting goalie berth. Lau, a high school star in St. Paul, had a strong camp and was praised by players for his ability to force shooters to commit themselves...
...American Diplomat Frank Kellogg, who was the originator of the Utopian Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, in which 15 powers, including Germany and Japan, agreed to renounce war as an instrument of national policy; and former United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, who was named posthumously as lau reate in 1961, while his U.N. peace keeping force soldiered on in the bloody morass of the Belgian Congo...
Incredibly, the local fire chief claimed that he had no knowledge of the Cinq-Sept's opening or its fire-law violations, though the club was a great attraction and major tax contributor to Saint-Lau-rent-du-Pont (pop. 3,700). "The mayor's office must certainly have been aware that the dance hall was operating without official authorization," said French Interior Minister Raymond Marcellin. The club had reopened last April in a new building; the old one had burned down on the other side of town, without any casualties, in February...
...Lau asked in an anxious voice, 'What about them? Still alive?' The white-haired man replied, 'Yesterday they were.' Arriving at a piece of low, damp land near a stream, Nam Khom stooped and called to the others: 'You see? You see?' The crippled farmer let his crutches drop and sat down for a better look. On the surface of the damp earth, he saw traces of earthworms. He uttered a low cry: 'They are alive! Alive! This earth is not to be abandoned.'" The farmers' faith is described...