Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reluctantly prepared to watch these reversals continue all afternoon, but luckily, the two men extricated themselves and came over to explain Harvard's newest athletic organization--the Judo club, Nick Strater '53, of Leverett House, was the one with the mustache, and the inspiration for the club...
After Old Nick: Hubert. The night before the Democrats held their official caucus, 19 New-Fair Deal Senators, most of them in a mood to stir up trouble, met with New York's Herbert Lehman. Agenda: discussion of an anti-filibuster change in the Senate rules. A fight on this point would have set Northern and Southern Democrats at each other's throats at the very outset of the 1955 session. The man who killed the plan was Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, once the noisiest and most reckless of the South-baiters. Humphrey urged his friends...
Orange Bowl at Miami. Duke's battering Halfbacks Bob Pascal and Nick McKeithan overwhelmed Nebraska...
From George J. Nick, Middle Village, N.Y.: "You, sir, are not worthy of being a human being. I would spit on you if I could, but you would not be worthy of my saliva...
...years away from his rootland, he speaks with an unmistakable Midwestern twang. Absentmindedly he rubs a star-shaped scar near his right foot, one of the scars left by the mortar shell which gravely wounded him at Fossalta, Italy, in 1918 when he was a volunteer ambulance driver. Nick Adams, hero of many of Hemingway's short stories, was wounded at approximately the same place in much the same way. So was Lieut. Henry of A Farewell to Arms; so was Colonel Cantwell of Across the River and Into the Trees. A critic named Philip Young last year published...