Word: lions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard blitzed on several downs, causing the out-of-sync Columbia offense to panic. Lion quarterback Bruce Mayhew is still having bad dreams of Harvard defensive end Mike Murphy chasing...
...frustrating 1-0 overtime loss to Columbia left them with more memories of New York's stuffy subways, stale pretzels and sidewalk garbage than of Broadway, the Carnegie Deli or the Metropolitan Museum of Art. And these were no little-town Blues--after 120 minutes of brutal fouls from Lion defenders, the forward line could relate better to New York's muggings than its knishes...
Last week's attack was apparently the latest in a prolonged war between the Kenyan government and heavily armed bands of poachers set on pursuing the illegal trade in ivory, rhinoceros horns and leopard and lion skins. Richard Leakey, the noted paleoanthropologist who directs Kenya's wildlife service, said the killers would probably turn out to be poachers from neighboring Somaliland. These nomads are paid almost nothing for the hacked-off trophies, which are later sold for hundreds of millions of dollars in Asian and Middle Eastern markets...
Operation Sea Lion, it was called, a military feat that nobody had accomplished since William the Conqueror in 1066. The army's plan called for 90,000 men to storm ashore on a front extending 200 miles from Ramsgate to Lyme Bay, to be followed by 170,000 more troops within two days. But the navy balked. It did not have enough ships for such a broad front, and those it did have would be overwhelmed by the stronger British fleet. And who had control of the skies? If there was any doubt, said Goring, his Luftwaffe could smash...
...R.A.F. not only shot down many of the German bombers but also kept smashing the German invasion fleet being assembled in France. On one September night 84 barges were hit. Hitler was finally convinced. On Sept. 17 he formally decided "to postpone Sea Lion indefinitely." But the Battle of Britain went on. Between July and November, the Germans lost 1,733 aircraft, the British 915. Though the blitz continued until the following spring, costing about 30,000 lives in London alone, the essential result was that for the first time, Hitler's military power had been beaten back...