Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than 1500 jumps told me to calm my fears about skydiving. His expertise, khaki uniform and medal of the elite paratrooper corps would be enough to convince even the most timid in our group of a dozen Harvard students of the safety of skydiving. He must be right, I think, they must be professional. As he had said, they stake their livelihood on it, just as you put your life in their hands. After all, this is skydiving, the risks are high...
...sharp-eyed and as brusque as a boot camp sergeant. He spreads his legs, arching and throwing his head back yelling, "ARCHTHOUSAND, TWO THOUSAND, THREE THOUSAND, FOUR THOUSAND, FIVE THOUSAND, SIX THOUSAND, LOOK" he looks to his left heel. "LOOK." He looks to a release on his right pelvis, "PULL". He pulls the release. "PUNCH." He punches open the imaginary auxillary chute: the litany for a jumper after exiting the plane. If the main chute doesn't open after a count of six-thousand, you must pull the reserve. After 17 seconds, he tells us, you may as well forget...
...glow. "Step out," he says. I move one hand out the door but it is forced back inside by the wind. I try again, grasping onto the wing strut. I force my feet out on the step, the first and last step, pivot, face forward and raise my right leg as Maclaughlin taught me. A torrent of wind pushes against me, against every muscle...
...perhaps their best games of the year, stringing together short passes to work the ball upfield, then dumping off to the two forwards or releasing shots themselves. Rung had one of Harvard's best opportunities mid-way through the opening half. He followed up his own cross from the right side, then fired the ball just over the cross-bar after UMass tried to clear...
Mike Mogollon and Mauro Keller-Sarmiento, the Crimson's two forwards for most of the game, played soundly for the first time in four games. Only the power in Keller-Sarmiento's right foot seemed to be severely affected by an ankle injury he suffered in the Brown game...