Word: packs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both teams went out fast on the 2,8-mile course, but by the two-mile mark, a Brown trio of Bob Busick, George Bowman, and Chip Ennis and a lone Harvard pretender, Steve Marx, settled at the front of the pack...
...ardent Roosevelt supporters, a relentless, high-handed (and hardly judicious) investigator of public-utility lobbies, a prime mover of TVA, and a thundering critic of "judicial usurpation" by a Supreme Court that was overruling one piece of New Deal legislation after another. When F.D.R. failed in his plan to pack the Court with pro-New Dealers in 1937, he did the next best thing: he named Senator Black to fill the vacancy left by retiring Justice Willis Van Devanter. It was a well-planned ploy: the Senate could hardly refuse to confirm...
...garb on the Brechtian notion that in the 20th century the individual is no longer a meaningful entity. It was Brecht, too, who recognized that a nostalgic song put in a satirical context could then be savored for its sentimentality even while it was being bitterly spoofed. Songs like Pack Up Your Troubles and Keep the Home Fires Burning are used in just this way in Lovely War. Even more evocative are the familiar Christian hymns to which World War I soldiers added cynical and bawdy stanzas...
Crimson captain Bill Crain, who McCurdy had hoped would finsh in front of the pack, placed behind it instead, only 0:04 ahead of Friar sophomore Al Campbell. Campbell's sixth-place finish clinched the victory for Providence...
...Harvard's second line of runners, Dave Allen, John Ogden, Roy Cobb, and Jim Smith, whose strategy had been to break up the pack, all crossed the finish line after the meet was decided...