Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Midway through the second period, Kilkowski picked up the rebound of a shot by Regan and fed it back to Regan, who threw in a high shot from about 10 feet out for his first goal of the day. Harvard kept up the pressure and built an 11-4 lead before Crimson coach Bruce Munro started clearing the bench...
...point in the third period, which Harvard dominated more than any other period, the Crimson had the ball around the Williams cage for a full four minutes without losing it. Several shots bounced off the pipe, and Munro termed it "a really wonderful exhibition of power." The first midfield was in at the time...
...indisputable that Americans are losing some of their taste for smoking. Pollster Louis Harris reports that in the past four years the smoking population has declined from 47% to 42% of those over 21. One reason is that, in the same period, the number of Americans who believe smoking is a "major cause" of lung cancer has risen from 40% to 49%. Harris found that, by a ratio of 5 to 4, Americans favor restrictions on TV and radio ads for cigarettes. Significantly, those who are "most convinced" that cigarettes are dangerous tend to be people under 30. The polls...
...period is 1936, and those who read this minor masterpiece for the first time will be given a lively sense of what it was like to be young in that year and possessed of an eloquent dread of what the near future held. Its two gifted and high-spirited young authors-Wystan Hugh Auden and Louis MacNeice-have, in fact, put time...
...volcanic cones of Iceland on ponies, never lost their awareness of the active political volcanoes of Europe, which had first erupted in Spain. The last line in the book, "Still I drink your health before/The gun-butt raps upon the door," crystallizes in a phrase the tone of the period. Although no gun-butt ever knocked on the doors of Auden or MacNeice, the two poets were better prophets than most politicians. They sang of Armageddon...