Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There he quickly learned English, finished high school in a year and a half, and relearned the ways of civilization. Ruefully, he recalls his reaction when a boy teasingly slipped a banana peel in his pocket: "I swung a Landsberg jailhouse punch at him," acting "as if he wanted to kill [me]." But Pisar had for gotten how to apologize. "I had been in hell too deeply and too long. The next day presented him with two pounds of bananas...
...Henry N. Lamar Award, a gold pocket watch given to the player who, through his dedication and concern for his fellow players, has made a unique contribution to Harvard football-senior fullback Mike Ernst...
...contradictory nation, a place of displaced memories. Outpacing time and history in a willful torrent of assumed progress, the American forgets that his country was founded as the New Jerusalem. Only when some isolated pocket of that dream manages to elude skeptic scoffing does the past reduce the present to tears and wonder...
...Harvard started but, you wouldn't have thought it possible that the Crimson would be hitting the Turnpike at 4 p.m with a win in its pocket. On the opening drive of the game, Harvard halfback Steve Ernst went off right tackle and coughed the ball up, Crusader defense end Steve Raquet recovered at the Harvard 24 and four plays later H.C quarter back Pete Muldoon swept seven yard around right end and across the goal-line for a 7-0 advantage only three minutes into the contest...
...They did their job and flushed me out of the pocket, but we were blocking rally well and I was able to run. [Wingback] Jimmy Garvey must have thrown 100 blocks for us," he added...