Word: scarlets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then by a more or less relevant act or report relieved the anxiety he had helped create. He predicted the Hungarian revolt, for in stance, and the Israeli-Arab Six-Day War. But these events occurred any way. Sentiment dictates that Gehlen be treated as the last of the Scarlet Pimpernels. He was, in fact, more like the last of the Prussians - a nostalgia the world could hardly afford even in his own time. ·Melvin Maddocks
...shadows of bitterness or of that can only be cast by the hard light of day merge and fade away in the wash of darkness. To bid goodbye in a dream: surely this gentle going is better than the harsh, hard-edged parting in broad day, better than a Scarlet-Stained. Passion-Heavy sunset farewell. Deep blue night; the hush; a cool, whispering touch--and footsteps echoing away, ever more distant in the dark. Delicate, right, no danger of disintegration, of seeing what we've loved shattered, bursting into bitter dust in the light. Enveloped in that dusky atmosphere...
...certain that Premier Chou En-lai would meet Nixon at the airport, and TV screens then would record a strange sight: Nixon, the champion of capitalism, riding with Chou in an official black Hongchi (Red Flag) car and entering Tienanmen Square. There they would pass the ancient scarlet walls of China's imperial past and the Gate of Heavenly Peace, from which Chairman Mao Tse-tung in 1949 proclaimed the birth of the People's Republic...
...Crimson dominated every event, taking an early lead from the Scarlet Knights and never letting them within striking distance after the first round...
...foil squad, despite Dave Fichter's undefeated performance, was the major disappointment of the match. Against less skilled Rutgers performers. Harvard's foil men barely edged the Scarlet Knights in the event...