Word: notebooke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NOTEBOOK: The Crimson grapplers will travel to Princeton next weekend for the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championships...Harvard finished the day with 19 takedowns to its credit, while Yale tallied only seven on the afternoon...
...NOTEBOOK: During the Crimson's 58 game winning streak, the squad has won 491 individual matches, while surrendering only 32...Harvard has also recorded 39 shutouts during the streak...Dave Fish is 11-0 lifetime against Yale...The last time the Crimson lost to Yale (in 1961), John F. Kennedy was President of the United States...Harvard now leads the series with Yale, 47-15...The JV lost a close 5-4 decision to Yale...
...young warrior is asked his name and replies, "Lord Delamere." His parents had named him Lord Delamere. The visitor tears a page out of his notebook and walks 30 yards away and places the paper on the ground, weighed down by a stone. His lordship is asked to demonstrate his accuracy with a spear. Lord Delamere shrugs and stands and hurls his spear, impaling the blank page. The visitor asks to borrow the spear so that he might try. Alas, he does not straighten his arm, as in a javelin throw, but starts the motion somewhere behind his right...
...visitor's driver, Davis, was a Luo from Lake Victoria, a hearty man of middle age with smiling open face and the public manner of a gregarious bishop. Davis considered himself a Roman Catholic priest. Into a notebook that he always carried, he had inscribed the text of the Latin Mass, copied from a missal that he had borrowed somewhere in his travels. Davis sometimes donned a long white alb and, all by himself outside the boma, performed services beside his Land Rover, chanting the Latin in a rich bass...
Then, after we have resumed our herding, the notebook again: "Cows (11:54 a.m.) smell lion and start bawling loudly. They smell fresh lion urine. Moses sees it, pts to spot with spear. Still wet. Lions must be downwind from us now. Cow horns all went up exactly at once when they smelled. Hot noon sun. Moses laughing. Cows still afraid, horns up, smelling. WE CHASE THREE LIONS through forest. One growls. They get away thru bush and olive trees. We chase for 150 yds. and they have slipped away. This is somewhat dangerous business...