Word: maroon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summer storm, and warped as the wooden floor of the Maine antique shop where I bought it; a first edition of Ruskin's Unto This Last, small as a wallet, the cardboard covers exposed like a dilapidated wall; d'Annuzio's poems (1901), elegant in a spine of maroon ribbed leather; Edmund Gosse's life of Coventry Patmore, also a first edition; Arthur Symons' London: A Book of Aspects, "privately printed for Edmund D. Brooks and his friends" in Minneapolis (1908), in which the pages remain brittle as parchment; and a Bohn's Standard Library Edition of Eckermann's Conversations...
...around athlete. After graduating from the University of Kansas, where he held an NROTC scholarship, he won his wings at Pensacola, Fla. Subsequently he flew 100 carrier missions off Indochina and became the first Viet Nam veteran in the astronaut ranks. A modish dresser (typical garb: white slacks, maroon sports jacket, pink tie and shirt), he is married and the father of two children: a daughter, 13, and a son, 11. As pilot of the command ship America, he will remain in orbit around the moon while Schmitt and Cernan explore the lunar surface. Unlike earlier command pilots, he will...
...Crimson gained its only victories in matches against the Old Maroon, a rugby club from New York City, and the Rugby Club of Portland, Maine. Its losses in the Ivy League wore to Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, and Cornell...
...Harvard rugby team, coming off an impressive 7-6 victory over New York rugby power Old Maroon, challenges defending Ivy League champion Princeton at 10:30 this morning in New Jersey...
...Maroon had several chances to win the game in the last quarter but their kicker missed three penalty kicks, one coming with just five minutes remaining in the game...