Word: pom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...October 4, seven girls from Barnard and their pom poms will trot out on to Baker Field to encourage the Lions in their Ivy opener against Princeton. They will be accompanied by ten Columbia men and, as usual, by the student dressed in the Lion oufit...
...Geelong school. Charles arrived in February, and for the next six months took 50-to-60 mile hikes in the outback, cooked johnnycakes over his own campfire, fed the pigs and chickens, and chopped wood by the cord. His schoolmates were friendly, though he recalls being chaffed as a "Pom" (Aussie slang for an Englishman) on at least one occasion. "I had an umbrella with me," he said. "It had been raining quite heavily, and they all looked rather quizzically at this strange English thing, and as I walked out there were marvelous shouts of 'Oh, Pommy bastard...
...Falls, Ohio, by the CIA. Apparently in an effort to blacken the Mime Troupe's image six CIA agents put on a performance last night at Sanders Theatre that had fake written all over it. It was vulgar, unfunny and at the first act's end a rather uncomfortable pom-pom girl conducted the audience in a chorus of Stokely Carmichael's chant, "Hell no, we won't go." The CIA's plan backfired, though, because the audience was so determined to like the widely-touted Mime Troupe, that it cheered such unmistakably CIA-authored lines as "Would a hippie...
Looking back, Jeannette Kleinhans Lussier, 64, recalls most fondly the "wonderful times" playing games at lunch time, such as Last Man Out, run sheep run, Pom-Pom-Pullaway, red rover and, after the first snow, fox and geese. Homer McClarty, now an affluent well driller in Kalispell, still boasts of how his "big yellow dog Snipe" attended school with him every day for seven years, huddled close to the stove with the kids on the worst days and really deserved "a graduation certificate...
They had little success, as this morning's results demonstrate. Spearheaded by Andy "The Hulk" Beyer and inspired by Ex-Boston Patriot Cheerleader Maxie "Pom-Pom" Paisner, the well-oiled Crimson machine razzle-dazzled the befuddled Yalies into blue obscurity...