Word: reared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While most teams will bring ten men to Middlebury, only eight Cantabs will ski. The Crimson line-up has been severely weakened by injury and by quitting. Jay O'Rear, one of Harvard's best slalom men, broke his back earlier in the season. Since then, the number-two jumper has left school, and the number-three jumper has quit the team to spend more time studying...
...first subcompact, the Gremlin.* It was, said A.M.C. President William Luneberg, purposely designed to be "a contentious car, and nobody will be neutral about it." That may well be true. On the outside the Gremlin resembles a sawed-off station wagon, with a long, low hood and swept-up rear, and is faintly reminiscent of the original Studebaker Avanti. Though the Gremlin is only two inches longer than the 159-in. Volkswagen, the elongated hood makes the difference seem considerably more. It is 10 in. wider than a Volks and gives a stable, quiet and relatively comfortable ride...
...Welssman was the only Harvard with a blade to winthree bouts, he being a specialist of the foil, Mr. Welssman had a tendency to turn his back on opponents now and again, checking his progress against the scoring machine, whereupon he was fetched several stout clonis from the rear. This may not have been sporting of Trinity's lads, but it was legal, and the citizen Welssman would do well in tougher company to guard his backside with more enthusiasm...
...arrived, these select thirty-five would be corralled into elevators and taken to the twenty-third floor of the building, a step closer to the trial itself. Finally, at 10:15 the courtroom door would open, and they would enter in single file to find seats in the rear of the courtroom. A similar procedure would admit an additional thirty-five to the afternoon session of the trial...
Once attached, the new engines brought another serious difficulty. As the turbines thrust forward in flight, the rear casing was bent one-twentieth of an inch out of shape, letting jet gases leak around the turbine. Result...