Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...syllables into understandable words. They spewed out what English words they had with a machine gunlike rapidity. Given modeling clay (which they pretended was potato salad), kitchen implements, dolls and dollhouses, the twins would play and the speech pathologists would ask questions. Where should the doll go? "Inhouse," Gracie might answer. "Oh, in the house," Romain would reply slowly. Single words were expanded to phrases, phrases to sentences. Romain and Koeneke never directly corrected the twins. The girls seemed astonishingly innocent of the simplest childhood pleasures. They were totally baffled by a picture of a boy climbing a tree...
...mind. Says Catherine Pope: "The other talk still comes through. I suspect she and Gracie still do it behind closed doors." The twins now register IQ scores of 80 (up from 50) and have mastered simple reading and mathematical skills. The question of whether their remarkable private communication might hide a superior intelligence short-circuited by emotional problems is still unanswered...
...those games that might have turned a season around with a dramatic win in hostile territory. Instead, it was a glum conclusion to the first road trip of the year. Harvard's record falls to 1-3; Fordham tallies its first win after two losses...
...final moments of the second overtime. With 36 seconds remaining and Harvard down, 79-78, guard Calvin Dixon penetrated to the middle of the lane and dumped a beautiful pass to Flatt under the basket--maybe being fouled in the process. Flatt went up with it--and he might have been half-fouled, too. Fordham collected the rebound...
Were it not for the foul line--where both teams had repeated chances to win the game--play might not have advanced into overtime at all. With Harvard ahead by two after Don Fleming's strong drive with 1:59 left in regulation, Flatt was on the line for a one-and-one that would have put Harvard up by three or four with 29 seconds...