Word: rowing
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Going into the match, the two teams were the only undefeated squads in the Ivies, and although Harvard was ranked above Princeton in the nation--16th and 18th places, respectively--the Tigers were the clear favorite. Harvard had lost its last two games in a row, falling to unranked Providence and Boston College, and had not been as dominant as Princeton in rolling through the Ivy League...
Harry Pendel, 40, is the outwardly prosperous proprietor of Pendel & Braithwaite, Limitada, a gentlemen's tailor shop that bears on its frosted-glass window the legend PANAMA AND SAVILE ROW SINCE 1921. Legend seems the right word because Harry thinks he is the only person in Panama City, including his wife Louisa, who knows the falsity of his front. There was no Braithwaite and no establishment on Savile Row. Harry is in truth an ex-con who did time for torching his Uncle Benny's London garment warehouse, at his uncle's request, for the insurance. His new life...
...Hello, everybody ... Mr. President [to Gerald Ford, sitting in the first row], I hereby designate you hall monitor. You have my permission, sir, to whack anybody who gets out of line ... How you all doin'? Just fine, just fine. Look, if I can do this, anybody can do it ... You O.K., really? Everything all right? Did you get enough to eat?" In reply to someone's question as to where Don Imus was going to sit: "No comment. No fair to ask me questions...
...Thinking Tag get-together, people wander about and let their badges do the work. When they approach within five feet of each other, pairs of tags sniff and display their results in a neat row of five red and green leds. What happens when you encounter someone who sets off five red lights? Do you turn heel and flee to a more compatible piece of chestware? In the "tag meets" that Borovoy has run, that hasn't been the case. "People are very sophisticated readers," he says. Opposites, after all, sometimes attract...
Linnaean Street is referred to in several University publications as "Faculty row" because of the large number of Harvard professors who live there...