Word: playground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blood revived Harvard's offense, which sank a phenomenal 69.6 per cent of its shots from the floor in the first half, 31 of 57 for the game. The Crimson's usual deliberate patterns on offense gave way to a more physical, "playground-style" of attack...
...like the old days when you make up a game in the playground," Harvard coach Tom Sanders said after the loss at Penn's Palestra. "You walk over and out comes the seven-foot dude, and you say, 'Hey, wait a minute, he wasn't with you when you set this game...
...recreation committee built a ball park, bleachers, and playground equipment on a vacant lot which became Community Park despite the wails of the titular owner. It remains Community Park. The housing people galvanized enough community support to defeat an invading gas station (there are five already in the neighborhood) and to hold the line against a number of evictions from houses bought by speculators--and to begin accumulating the support and capital to start the local, hopefully co-operative purchase of vacant buildings...
...rest of the country slid into the Depression, Marjorie prospered as the Post hostess with the mostest. Her estates became the playground for the surviving American moneyed, from the Phippses and Vanderbilts to the Kennedys and Dodges. Winters were spent at Mar-A-Lago, a 115-room, $7,000,000 residence in Palm Beach, Fla. Decorated with Italian stone, tiles made in 15th century Spain, and tapestries from the palace of the Venetian Doge, the crescent-shaped, turreted mansion and its estate boasted a nine-hole golf course, 10,000 potted plants, and well placed sand that enabled the family...
Born in Akron, Dean was raised with his sister Anne in several Midwestern cities, as their father rose through the executive ranks of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. Later the elder Dean settled in Greenville, Pa., where he became vice president of a company that manufactures playground equipment. At Staunton, young John studied self-hypnotism to improve his concentration and roomed with Barry Goldwater Jr., who now is his neighbor in Alexandria, Va. Dean graduated with a low B average and got by at Colgate with gentlemanly C's before transferring to Ohio's College of Wooster...