Word: ol
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Terrier players will certainly try to win one for ol' coach. But so will the Crimson...
Harvard, that ol' bastion of intellectualism, says it does not engage in that sort of thing. Harvard does admit to giving preference in admissions to athletes--something people here never seem to question--not for the sake of big-time sports (or organized barbarism, as some would say), but for diversity and the Greco-Roman ideal...
...organizations for its stereotypical portrayals of blacks -- with an eye-rolling imitation of the character Kingfish. Then he allowed that "it's too bad" that schoolchildren can no longer don blackface and appear in minstrel shows. Finally he lamented the practice of changing racially offensive lyrics in songs like Ol' Man River, likening it to Soviet rewriting of history books. Said Michel: "That doesn't wash well with me." After a howl of protest from black leaders, Michel apologized. "My regret is even more profound," said he, "because I believe my public record of over 32 years as a Congressman...
...Lions did not commit a single turnover in their victory over Princeton. The last time Columbia did that was in its 44-0 win over Fordham on October 4, 1972. The good ol' days...
...evident in tense radio weather reports and the spastic smiles of television weather forecasters as they explain the now well-known greenhouse effect -- the inexorable warming of the earth under the global canopy that civilization has created with gases like carbon dioxide. The friendly, familiar promises of good ol' summertime have yielded to the hallucinatory imagery of technology...