Word: mareli
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...ripsnorting shivaree. The Old Gray Mare Band of Brownwood blatted out The Eyes of Texas. Diva May Peterson sang Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet, and the crowd stomped and whistled and let out an unearthly rebel yell. Then Miriam Amanda Ferguson, all gussied up in a black satin dress, stood up and took the oath as Governor of Texas...
...Admiral Hyman G. Rickover is often dismissed by professional educators as an out-of-his-depth amateur. In fact, Rickover is a seasoned schoolmaster running one of the most efficient school systems in the U.S.: the Navy's little-known Nuclear Power Schools at New London, Conn., and Mare Island, Calif...
Distractions are banned. A freshman must settle his money problems before arrival, and Navy rituals, such as marching and swabbing, are cut out. At Mare Island, the base commander gingerly treats Rickover's school like a well-armed island owned by a foreign power...
...stark and broken tones of the mutterings of Synge's Irish peasants. But the peasants themselves are not intrinsically interesting. Maurya, the matriarchal mother, has lost a husband and five sons to the sea before the play begins; during it she loses the sixth--he rides the family mare into the sea--and is left, stoically resigned to life, with two unmarried daughters. ("They are all gone now, and there isn't anything more the sea can do to me. We must be satisfied.") And that's all there is to it: quiet, somber, and rather dull. Only...
...Crimson decided the trick had gone far enough. As Bill Madden of the Elis threw a pass to teammate Mare Landrum. Harvard made the ball go off Landrum's hand and out of bounds. After Bob Bowditch made a final free throw, the crowd filed out, content. Little did they know that the whole drama was a masterful Harvard trick...