Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sweat. Almost immediately we broke out the booze and paddled back to Weld--oar in one hand, beer in the other--to cheers from the crowd that remained. Only now did I notice that the 1979 Head had been the last race for my sliding seat, which cracked and lost a bolt at the finish line. Somebody was on our side. In fact, we had finished in 19'33", not particularly good for the Championship Eights, but better than our best practice time of 28 minutes and ahead of Colgate, the last boat to finish the Head. They came...
...sterling apprenticeship at that. Brown said, "the statistics were the best part," and indeed the numbers reveal a most promising debut. In the Astros' (Sarasota, that is) 52-game season, he made 21 appearances, won three, lost three, saved nine games and came away with a tidy 1.92 earned run average...
...great to see them bounce back like they did," sailing coach Mike Horn said yesterday. "In the last race we were sailing against Brown. If we had lost, they would have been first and we would have been fourth." Radcliffe finished the Championships with six wins and two losses, Brown with five wins and three losses and third-place URI won four and lost four. The team sailed without Lauren Norten, one of the team's top skippers, who was pressed into service in the MacMillan Cup on the same weekend...
James Hilton, the author of Lost Horizons, modeled his apocryphal land of "Shangri-la" after Tibet. Heinrich Harrer, a European mountaineer who served as tutor to the Dalai Lama during the 40s, wrote in wonder of a land where one quarter of the adult population were monks or nuns. In his travels through Tibet. Harrer noted that there were no public inns. Tibetans opened their homes to all travelers, he wrote, as if grateful for the opportunity to serve. Harrer encountered niches of subtropical vegetation growing amidst snow-covered montains, monasteries built upon seemingly inaccessible cliffs, and mediums...
Three Leverett interceptions, two by Tony Giamberardino and one by Jay Winstein, stopped Mather's attempted comebacks. Mather has now lost both its games...