Word: pucks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fairies. Barrie wrote, "Every time a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead." He thus upended the truth (people need fairies) and propagated a late Victorian myth (fairies need people) that must have grounded Puck and Ariel. The rest of the century was no kinder. Thanks to Peter Pan's continuing popularity and Disneyfication, Tinker Bell & Co. were ultimately reduced to trademarks or synonyms for homosexuals. The supernatural was obviously not long for this world. Until now. In Kingdoms of Elfin, Author Sylvia Townsend Warner...
Hozack, the Edmonton Express' senior center who Dea describes as "really cute with the puck," decided to come to Harvard without any outside prodding. He doesn't regret his departure from the high-pressured hockey of his hometown, as he says that in Edmonton "You're really aware of what's happening in Junior hockey. That's where the struggle to make it is. There are a lot of guys all around you who are trying to make it and don't produce. When you see that kind of thing it doesn't make a good impression...
What makes Hozack's line produce is that Horton and Dea, who learned their aggressive forechecking way back in midget league, are able to dig in the corners and get the puck to him. The result of such a combination is very often a picture-perfect goal and a roar of appreciation in Waston Rink or Boston Garden that might make the Edmonton Express remember the roar of the Canadian Pacific Railroad as it crosses the lonely prairies of Alberta...
Spalding finally cracked the Cod crease with a low, backhand shot after receiving the puck from John Moot...
Harvard's defense relaxed and Cape Cod took advantage of the lapse to tally twice. John Connors swiped an errant Crimson pass and lifted the puck over Harvard goalie John Conant's shoulder to tie the game...