Word: romp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Princeton has a more difficult assignment. Its opponent, Colgate, has an interesting past. It includes a tie with B.U., a romp over Rutgers, and a close squeeze past Cornell. The Red Raiders, therefore, should give the Tigers a fairly decent challenge and provide the League with more information on the state of Dick Colman's squad. Ivy League teams have done pretty well against outsiders this season; Princeton should improve the League's winning percentage...
What was supposed to be a Harvard romp turned out to be nothing of the sort as the Crimson cross-country team barely escaped with a 27-28 victory over Penn at Van Cortlandt Park in New York yesterday. Columbia was the amiable host for the meet, bowing as expected to the Crimson...
...offensive romp that kept the Jumbos deep in their own territory for most of the game, the Bunnies scored on 60- and 80-yard drives right through the center of Eliot's 6-2 defense...
Part rite and part romp, the summer music festival attests the ever-widening U.S. interest in the arts. The quality of performance varies from aspiring and disciplined musicianship to the routine drudging of bored hacks. The classics sometimes share the scene with jazz and folk singing, often done with verve and style. There is even a hot-weather blend of classical and popular that might be dubbed popsical music. Herewith, a sampling of some distinctive U.S. festivals...
Hawaii once meant Waikiki-a fabled bit of beach washed by the blue Pacific, where laughing girls wreathed visitors with orchid leis and every day afforded another sun-drenched romp through a paradise of surf and sand, every night (under a perfect moon) another tropical taste of the revelry of luau. But in only ten years, Waikiki has been transformed into some thing that seems to belong more to southern Florida than it does to the once magical islands of Hawaii. Soft-drink and souvenir stands clutter the beach front, the famed beach itself is often so crowded that...