Word: rugger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might have worked better. Against the Globetrotters, Goldie came up short. ∙ During a vacation trip to Argentina last summer, Albuquerque Mayor David Rusk (son of former Secretary of State Dean Rusk) learned that a group of Buenos Aires rugby players were planning a U.S. visit. Rusk, an old rugger from his days at the University of California, naturally invited the boys home to New Mexico for a match against the locals. And that might explain what the mayor, at 37 years of age and a stocky 215 Ibs., was doing in an Albuquerque Aardvarks B team uniform, facing...
However, some of the players dislike the new regimentation. "There should be a place for an unstructured sport at Harvard, and that's what rugby used to supply," one veteran rugger said...
Sailor-Poet. But according to Day, young Lowry was not just a budding aesthete. After losing his baby fat, he turned into a credible rugger player, a strong swimmer and an excellent golfer. He wrote jazz songs and played the ukulele, an instrument that accompanied him all his life. He even spent a year as a deck hand aboard a freighter (driven to the dock in the family Rolls). Upon his return he entered Cambridge, where he played the experienced sailor-poet, began work on his first novel, Ultramarine, and started serious drinking...
...operation long before the word multinational became fashionable. It has long insisted on local management of its foreign operations. One local manager was O'Reilly, a law graduate, who made a business name as a hard-nosed food-marketing man while he was still suffering broken noses playing rugger. In his 20s, he had headed the Irish National Dairy Board. As chief of Heinz's U.K. subsidiary, he introduced pudding and canned-hamburger lines that proved exactly suited to U.K. tastes...
...game was "extremely satisfying" rugger Alec Wiggin said. "They get up for Harvard more than any other team, but we take the big ones away from them all the time." Over the last few years the Harvard rugby team has completely dominated Princeton. For instance, the last three times the two teams have met in competition for the Farmington Cup, held at Farmington Connecticut, Harvard has won each contest...