Word: rook
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Leverett, who is president of the Harvard Chess Club, and Franklin, one of this year's brightest stars, both entered the last round undefeated. But Franklin lost his match in a dogged bishop and rook endgame, while Leverett made a hash of the Queen's Gambit Declined, giving up a pawn on the seventeenth move...
...with a Scarlet Letter on her breast. At times she rings of Emily Dickinson, "A bodiless soul could pass another soul. In this clear air and never notice it--", from the "Widow" a poem of the fantasies of grief clearly about her mother. A much less proficient poem "Black Rook in Rainy Weather" recalls in tone and subject to Robert Frost's "Dust of Snow" about the crow and the saving of a day he had rued, which in turn sounds like Aesop's fable of "The Fox and the Crow"--the same simpleminded experience...
Barbic Grant and Julie Bradley in Division "A" took two firsts in the six races for 18 points and second in the division, while Janice Stroud, skippering for the first time this year, rook low-point skipper honors in Division "B" with a mere 13 points. Kathy Angell crewed for Stroud...
...Dean of Radcliffe. How much power will she have to further the interests of women at Harvard? She will be a member of the Faculty and the Council of Deans. "The Dean of Radcliffe," Gilbert said, "is the key to how all this works. The wrong person could rook everything." According to Bunting, "The Radcliffe Dean will have powers I've never had. She will be expected to take an interest in innovative projects for women. I have been working in several areas but without a specific mandate. She won't have to worry about housing and certain other administrative...
Other cries throughout the evening were. "Free Bobby Seale," "Off the pig," and "Rook and Roll is here to stay." As rioters filtered from the Square to Mt. Auburn St. near Adams House and Claverly Hall, they began chanting. "We want music, give us some music" Claverly opened up with "Street Fighting Man," by the Rolling Stones...