Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Teddy White is interested in excitement. He has been ever since China. But he indulges this interest to excess. He falls too easily for the big names--Chou En Lai, Stillwell, MacArthur, Mao, Eisenhower and Kennedy. To White, these people are all bigger and better than life. He loses his perspective which causes the reader to lose respect for White's credibility...
DARTMOUTH at HARVARD--I've never seen a Harvard football team lose to Dartmouth, and I don't want to see things change today. But, really, how can you pick a team that's already beaten Penn and Yale? My heart says yes, but my bookie says no. Dartmouth 28, Harvard 22 (sorry...
...winter snows by travelling to classes through the tunnels. During the 1969 occupation of University Hall, another rumor has it, Harvard administrators escaped invading protesters by fleeing through the underground passages. Once upon a time, the wrestling team jogged through the tunnels, sweating from the triple-digit temperatures, to lose weight before matches. And the stories live...
...easy work. The thermometers in the tunnels usually hover at about 100F, but temperatures as high as 120 have been reached. Supervisors must walk a tightrope between overheating the tunnels, which would make maintainance work difficult, and cooling them to the point where steam pipes lose their heat...
...years, from 1969-1972. Now she's trying to get her players in shape for a March 12-April 1 tour of England, and as she says: "Coaching the national team means putting yourself on the line. The U.S. is the best--the only thing you can do is lose...