Word: letting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though outshooting the Big Green in the third, Harvard let a 4-2 second-period margin balloon into the 7-2 final score...
...Green kept the partisan throng roaring in far-from-bucolic Rupert Thompson Arena, scoring goal number two at 2:52. Defensemen Tom Cross let a shot loose from the left point that forward Rick Wilson was able to re-direct in from the slot...
...remember telling them once they reached me that, if they had to leave me, to be sure and let someone know where I was. I also asked them what would become of the two men. They agreed the men needed help, though I'm not sure how much they cared. I looked back a last time. I knew the men would die. But at the moment I didn't care either. I couldn...
...first few minutes, after setting off again, I fell every ten or so steps. My mind couldn't control my legs, let alone summon the strength to boost me back up. Once down I would sway on my knees, occasionally falling flat on my face, until one or another or two of the men hoisted me up. As soon as they put a jacket on me I warmed up, regained some strength and considerably more sense. They wanted to make me drop my pack, as Mike had done. By then I knew enough to say no. We were below treeline...
...SAME time their death isn't tormenting me, my life didn't bother them. I know it didn't. Hypothermia, in many respects, is a gracious killer. At the point we left the men they no longer cared. Soon they wouldn't realize what was happening, let alone remember me and the fact I could get away while they couldn't. Nor would they remember the only thing I later learned about them--that they were father and son--which like everything else that happened that day was a mixed blessing...