Word: let
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twenty years ago this weekend, a Yale senior defensive back named Edward Franklin let a pass fly into a Harvard receiver's hands just inside the goal line with no time left on the clock, and watched in horror as history was made. A famous Crimson headline reported the results: "Harvard Beats Yale...
...Hastings '57, one of the Harvard faithful on Hajj to Cambridge this weekend, was at the Chicago Harvard Club when the famous deadlock locked. "Two-thirds of the people left early, but the rest of us die-hards thought we'd see it through to the end--and let the real Harvard shine through," he said...
...Let's level with one another. The result of the Question 5 referendum won't in the least affect our congressional delegation, nor will it influence the Israeli coalition negotiations or the plans of the PLO this month. What might happen now that the referendum is in the past is that each "side" will shift its focus to the results and interpret them as vindication, and then everyone will go back to not thinking about the issue very intensely and not doing anything constructive...
...Check your history. Such displays of emotion were once in vogue, but after it resulted in tragedy in 1983, such acts have been banned. Still, feel free to make a mad dash for the 50-yd. line after the final whistle blows. The players love it. They even let you touch their helmets. What...
...second night, she adds, "we concentrated more on `let's do it well' rather than...