Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be a somewhat patchwork outfit that takes the field today for Yale in the Elis' 79th football meeting with Harvard. A remarkably healthy squad until two weeks ago, the Bulldogs have been hit by a sudden rash of injuries that have played havoc with their three-team system...
...they had for decades been turning sows' ears into silk purses. Now they had found a silk purse that had no desire to become a sow's ear. The girl did not want to be exploited, squeezed, and stuffed with cash. Joan eventually signed with a little outfit called Vanguard, which is now a considerably bigger outfit called Vanguard...
...sell my outfit just as soon...
...twice been chased off a German-owned beach, complained from the pulpit: "Has the day really come when an Irishman can't go for a swim in his own sea?" In tiny Ticino, Switzerland's only Italian-speaking canton, worried citizens formed a militantly anti-German outfit called D.D.T. (for Difesa del Ticino). But despite a new law screening all foreign real estate purchases, the Germans now outnumber the Swiss in many areas. "The average Swiss," sighs one official, "can no longer afford to buy his own home...
After the Crimson's feeble performance against Dartmouth two weeks ago, it seemed the varsity's best defense against the swift Princeton backfield would surely be prayer. But John Yovicsin's outfit turned in its top performance of the year in routing Penn, 36-0, last weak in the rain and the cold. And the talk this week where the faithful gather has been cautiously optimistic...