Word: quakers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will do the job for Penn, assuming the Quakers can do it at all, is a substitute quarterback named Bill Gray. Gray leads the Penn passers, and Quaker coach John Stiegman has a habit of using him in clutch situations--something he will be especially likely to do against a team with as poor a reputation for pass defense as Harvard...
Princeton was heavily favored that afternoon, and the only thing that kept Penn in the game was an incredibly adept pass defense ah Quaker defenders twice picked off Tiger aerials within the Penn 10-yard line. This sort of thing happens al lthe time with Penn, however, the Quakers lead the country in pass defense, having allowed only 23 completions out of 73 enemy attempts, with 10 interceptions...
...Harvard-Radcliffe to work in. Their fields range from archaeology, law and philosophy to painting, poetry and psychiatry. When she announced the idea last fall, Mary Bunting was startled at the response. Letters flowed in from all over the world, along with 2,400 applications. "To use a Quaker phrase," she says, "we must have spoken to their condition...
...though temporary pacifier: the Alphabet Game. One team watches the advertising signs on the right side of the road, the other takes the left. The winner is the one who first finds all 26 letters in alphabetical order. After p, the big thrill comes with the discovery of a QUakeR STate Oil sign...
...life and career were anomalous in his century. He was one of the few Russian writers who did not come from the gentry; his background was lower middle class. There was a strong nonconformist influence on him through an aunt who had married an Englishman and followed the Quaker way of life. He never joined a political party and so, at one time or another, was reviled by both radicals and conservatives. Yet in his job as an assistant steward on the vast estates of the wealthy Perovsky and Naryshkin families, he traveled through his country so extensively and perceived...