Word: leans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard women harriers weren't the only Crimsonites huffing and puffing in competition. Head coach JOHN BABINGTON entered the coach's race--which covered the same course the women were to run the following day--and finished 16th. "I obviously wasn't in great condition," he laughs...Although the lean members of the squad have to watch their weight to maintain the wolfhound slimness necessary to do well in competition, the Harvard harriers aren't above an occasional pig-out session--like the ones they had at Elmer's Pancake House in Pocotello during the Nationals competition. Devoured in mass...
This could be the year for the Harvard wrestling team. After many years of frustration for Coach Johnny Lee and the Crimson, the present squad could make the team's supporters forget some of the lean years of the recent past. In its assault on respect and recognition, the team takes its first test at the Coast Guard Tournament this weekend...
...swashbuckler in khaki, jetting secretly into Viet Nam, summoning his commanders, sending off the bombers, riding silently past the lines of lean young men fresh out of foxholes. But it was a melancholy experience, not at all like the movies. Speeding back to the U.S. after his Viet Nam visit, Johnson was a deeply troubled man. He had found out that...
...mainstage--its enormity. Miller has filled the disproportionate space with arches and arbors and many-tiered platforms. Playing on and around their stuccoed surfaces, the actors, for a welcome change, look at home. Instead of worrying that their gestures are dissipating in the vast emptiness, they just relax and lean on the piano...
NASA's unsurprising name for the second test of its Space Transportation System is S.T.S.-2. Columbia will be piloted by a new crew, Air Force Colonel Joe H. Engle, 49, the lean, affable mission commander who likes to hunt bear with bow and arrow, and Navy Captain Richard H. Truly, 43. Both are veteran pilots who began training as astronauts in the 1960s but who only now will be making orbital flights. The shuttle will be packed with more fuel and equipment than it was last April, including seven experiments, and it is slated to stay aloft...