Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offspring of heroes often choose between emulation and rejection. In the category of the overreaching emulator, consider George S. Patton III. As an Army colonel in 1968, he sent out a Christmas card: a photograph of a pile of Vietnamese corpses, with the inscription "Peace on Earth." In the Oedipal upmanship of military dynasties, Patton's father, the ivory-pistoled mystic brute of World War II, was a tough act to follow...
...most of its Sunday-night schedule to a dramatic biography of Elvis Presley. The show portrays the first-and maybe still the greatest-of the epic rockers with a dash of eccentric imagination and a large portion of compassion. ABC has high hopes that its weekend of rock will pile up Nielsen points during the February "sweeps" period, and that is something of a signal. Rock 'n' roll, roughly 25 years old, has endured, mutated and flourished. Only one thing has changed. Rock started as rebel music. It has been big business for years. This weekend...
That's the story for the men's swim team so far this season, by far the most talented and successful of the winter's teams. Joe Bernal's conglomeration of swift aquawonders are sitting haughtily atop the impressive pile of statistics; but as the season resumes this week, the Crimson swimmers face the ultimate test--the Chem 20 of their water world--this Saturday...
What Bertagna called "good positional hockey" and the revitalization of netminder Nelia Worsley helped Harvard turn around its fortunes and pile up some respectable play...
...September 1977. Quarterback Tim Davenport collapses under a pile of Columbia Lions in the Baker Field endzone, on a muggy, hot day in Devil's Elbow. Although Davenport finishes the game, doctors diagnose a broken neck vertebra two days later, putting the quarterback out for the rest of the season...