Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Returning to Cambridge on Sept. 13, the players began four days of intensive double-session workouts, but the trip did cause them to miss a lot of the usual preseason conditioning. However, Mabrey feels that the benefits of the trip outweigh the losses...
Those whose packages--work-study or otherwise--have kept pace with costs seem to share nonetheless in the anxiety. Though plenty of aid recipients face no problems in the coming year, a "near miss" mentality makes itself known. "I'm getting thorugh at just the right time, I guess," says Colleen Ogle '83, an Ohio native whose senior-year grant grew proportionally to costs. "I felt very lucky--I knew it's getting tougher all the time...
...Elis might miss the class of '82 even more on defense and special teams. Yale led the league in rushing defense last season holding its seven Ivy opponents to 657 yards on the ground. The loss of linebackers Jay Snyder and Jeff Rohrer (a second round draft pick of the Dallas Cowboys) particularly disturbs Cozza...
...Marines who disembarked in Beirut quickly took over the port area from the French units that had been there since the previous Saturday. First ashore was the flag-bearer, Lance Corporal James Dunaway, of Hattiesburg, Miss., followed by 200 men of Company E of the 32nd Marine Amphibious Unit. A Marine emblem pinned to his shirt, U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib, who had negotiated the agreement between Israel and the P.L.O. that led to the Palestinians' withdrawal, stepped forward to greet Marine Colonel James Mead, commander of the volunteer force...
Librettist Colby's campy, hit-or-miss humor works best in a scene describing the heroine's mother, a "chronic shiverer" who goes to her reward wearing enough garments to stock a branch of Marks & Spencer. Other beguiling wackinesses: a song about a man who makes eating vegetables seem a sexual experience, the vocal travails of a hiccuping, stuttering woman who has "bubbles in her bonnet," and the soprano heroine's sudden loss of her "high note," which she regains at the price of addiction-to helium sucked from balloons. In less good taste is a character...