Word: leggings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Himelman's magic wand yesterday was his driver as the journeyman senior was able to pinpoint his tee shot through the entire round. Himelman began his round from the back nine and was three over going to the dog-leg par-five 18th, his ninth hole...
...have applied to Brown. Next to each applicant's name, a long string of numbers and cryptic abbreviations shows college board scores, class rank, grade-point average and a preliminary rating for academic promise and personal quality on a scale of 1 to 6. Other symbols reveal more: "LEG 1" is a legacy, the son of a Brown alumnus. "M1" is a black; "M8" a Chicano. "50" means the Brown football coach is interested, "70" that Brown's development office has marked the candidate's parents as potential benefactors...
...Peter" is a "double leg"-both his mother and father went to Brown. He is unexciting but unobjectionable, and his grades and scores are good. "We're trapped," sighs a committee member. There is laughter around the table, but no one doubts that keeping the alumni happy is worth it. After all, they pay for Brown's quality. Peter gets an "A 83"-A for admit; the 83 warns that a lop-off is still possible when Rogers re-examines legacy applications in April. The committee moves on to "John": "Third in his class, 730 verbal, a genuine...
...after the tally. But Harvard wasn't ready to start when the refs were. So despite the fact that the zebra suits had failed to issue the mandatory warning to the Crimson before calling delay of game, the ball was awarded to the jubilant Quakers. It took a sparkling leg save by First to prevent a potentially dangerous seventh Penn goal...
...local players so that Boston Symphony Orchestra musicians could demonstrate a point of technique rapidly. Then he plunged ahead, a riveting little figure dressed to silk-screen perfection in a mod-Mao white suit by Designer Hanae Mori. He virtually pummeled the unruly sound into order and expressiveness, right leg stamping the beat, arms punching deep into the recalcitrant horn section...