Word: mph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seat, wondering if he has the Pusey touch. Pusey sitting at the 50 clasps his hands and asks for Frank. The Zone is now back in his own end zone, at ease. He sees Nick Leone, wearing Champi's old number, and he throws into a 20-mph wind. The ball sails all 100 yards and into the arms of Leone for the touchdown. The Zone, always at his cleverest against Yale, calls the same play again, and gets the two points for a tie. Finally as if the trip back to New Haven isn't going...
...expected, the meet emerged as a hard-fought duel between Princeton and Harvard, with Yale finishing a distant third on the rain-soaked 4.45 mile course. An icy wind which blew steadily at 25 mph kept the temperature down to 36 degrees for the race...
...format went down the drain, along with the daily full front-page photo of The Drama of Everyday Life (kids' cats stuck in trees with firemen on the way; the near rescue of a suicide victim; the wreckage of the car and truck that crashed head-on at 80 mph, miraculously killing only seven out of eight occupants). The front-page maze of banner headlines luring readers to inside pages gave way to a single full-column headline atop the new paper; there will be no more 60 pt. "Reds Repelled in Viet Rocket Attack" leading to a five-inch...
...last week's victory on the Schuylkill. Harvard and the Quakers were in a dead heat battle after 1000 meters with Navy about three-quarters of a length back when the rough waters and a 25 mph wind swamped Penn's newly christened "Joe Burk" shell and its chances for victory...
With a quick swerve to the right reminiscent of Steve McQueen in "Bullit," I took the ramp at a brisk 65 mph. Suddenly it dawned on me that I was going too fast. Screech, I drove my foot down on the brakes. Lulled into a false sense of security, my two friends awoke to find the car skidding and spinning out of control between the two guard rails. After one and a quarter exciting revolutions the car came to a stop that left us straddling the ramp, and, needless to say, a bit shaken...