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Word: rinks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presently ranked third in the East while sporting an 11-5-0 record. A win at Watson Rink is a must for the Crimson because, to secure a place in the top eight, at least one victory over Cornell is probably necessary. And Harvard has found the pucking tough on Ithaca...

Author: By Sandy Cardin, | Title: Big Red Invades Watson To Battle Crimson | 2/9/1977 | See Source »

...North Yarmouth, Me., where winds had been gusting up to 80 m.p.h., heavy, frozen snow caved through a hockey rink's roof-minutes after 25 youngsters had left. The same heavy snow leveled a horse barn in Windham, Me., but four horses trapped under the snow and twisted metal were dug out alive. Sturdy North Dakotans of Scandinavian descent, long since inured to cold, broke out booster buttons proclaiming: MINUS 40 BELOW KEEPS THE RIFFRAFF OUT. When West Virginia's Governor Jay Rockefeller insisted on being inaugurated outdoors in Charleston's 0° weather, local wags quipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: The Big Freeze | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

...gales and subzero cold threatened to turn the Great Lakes into one vast skating rink, boat traffic virtually ceased. Only a few adventurous captains steered past the treacherous floes in Lake Michigan, where ice was a foot thick eight miles from shore. Worse, both the Ohio and Mississippi rivers were frozen solid in long stretches. Some 300 barges and more than 50 tugs were locked in the 181-mile leg of the Mississippi between Cairo, Ill., and St. Louis. A few steel barges, weighing some 750 tons each, were shoved atop the sturdy ice like so many giant hockey pucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: The Big Freeze | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

Yale's hockey team invades Watson Rink February 26 to tangle with the Harvard icemen in an Ivy League matchup. So who cares? This isn't football season and besides, the Crimson throttled the Bulldogs in the last six contests. Who can get excited about an annual "laugher" for Harvard hockey enthusiasts...

Author: By Carl A. Esterhay, | Title: Coach Taylor Puts Bite in Bulldogs | 1/28/1977 | See Source »

...weeks ago in New Haven the fans witnessed another change--a triumph at Yale's Ingalls Rink. After four victories on the road, the Elis edged a strong RPI team, 5-3, for their first home victory of the season...

Author: By Carl A. Esterhay, | Title: Coach Taylor Puts Bite in Bulldogs | 1/28/1977 | See Source »

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