Word: pinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SATURDAY, APRIL 27 -- I row a boat race and split. On the MTA to Logan a middle-aged man starts winking and smiling and gesticulating at my right lapel. Looking down, I see that I am wearing a broken rifle pin, symbol of the War Resisters' League. I tell him that it so happens I am on my way back to Columbia right now to carry on a Revolution. He thinks that's fine...
Kent Parrot continued to shine at number four singles. The senior hockey star hustled to a 6-2, 6-4 victory. The outcome was never really in question, as Parrot knocked pin-point groundstrokes to all corners of his opponent's court...
...fresh start. In less than a decade, the Peace rose was blossoming on some 30 million bushes throughout the world. "How strange to think," wrote Francis Meilland in his diary, "that all these millions of rosebushes sprang from a tiny seed no bigger than the head of a pin-a seed we might so easily have overlooked or neglected in a moment of inattention, or which might have been relished as a tidbit by some hungry field mouse...
Jarvis almost got blown off the court as he dropped the first set 6-1 to Princeton captain Les Buck. But "the Rock" bounced back to steal the second set, 7-5, and extend the match. Demonstrating pin-point passing shots and back court hustle in the third set, Jarvis broke service twice to gain a 6-2 margin of victory...
Brown, his face drawn and nearly milky pale, and Carmichael, in a blue pin-striped suit, led a crowd of 200 junior high and high school youths on a charge from Amsterdam Avenue, through police lines, and onto the besieged campus...