Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decade to 129, more than double the number of new colleges that have opened. The campus kill ratio seems sure to soar in the years ahead. A Carnegie study predicts that as many as 300 institutions will vanish through the 1980s. Some educators expect an even greater number to lose their present identity through mergers and drastic cutbacks in the range of courses they offer, as well as outright bankruptcies. "One way or another," says Dartmouth President John G. Kemeny, "if present trends continue, about half of them are going to go out of business...
...people closest to him never seemed to lose patience. "Divorce, no," quipped his wife Anne, when asked if she ever considered leaving him. "Murder, yes." Hayes certainly was not volunteering to retire. "When I do, I'll die on the 50-yard line at Ohio Stadium in front of the usual crowd of 87,000," he said a few years ago. "If you do," someone interjected, "I sure hope the score's in your favor." Replied Hayes...
...always frighteningly-even pathologically-at the mercy of private demons. "When we lose a game, nobody's madder at me than me," he said five years ago. "When I look into the mirror in the morning, I want to take a swing at me." Literally. After losing to Iowa in 1963, Hayes slashed his face with a large ring on his left hand. Pacing the sidelines, he sometimes bit into the fleshy heel of his hand until it bled. Even a heart attack in 1974 did not make Hayes ease...
...mood when I was writing a poem, as if I had walked into a forest. It is necessary masochism; it means suffering, but I like it." He even welcomes the intrusion of the spotlight. "It blinds me, and I forget about the faces in front of me. I lose all connection with people. I can say everything then. It is like talking to God, to your life and death. On stage, you are another person. You belong to language...
Captain Jenny Stone continued to devastate all comers. Stone has yet to lose a game this year, and Saturday was no exception as she trounced Williams' Pam Hansen 15-9, 15-7, 15-4 in the fourth-ranked contest...