Word: score
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...addendum, amounting to flat repudiation of a President in time of war, was more than even Fulbright could swallow. And Russell's amendment, though certain to draw at least 80 Senate votes, would have set off another round of conscience-searching, party-splitting argy-bargy among the two score Democrats who have criticized the President in one degree or another. Consequently, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield decided that he would move to table Morse's amendment, thus cutting off further debate on it, if Russell would forget his motion. Russell agreed...
School Is a Ritual. In the past, Peggy's main weakness had been her tracing of the compulsory, or "school," figures, a repetitive series of "paragraphs," "rockers" and "counters" that comprises 60% of a figure skater's score (v. 40% for free skating). Davos' 5,500-seat stadium was virtually empty last week as the skaters went through the exacting ritual, tracing and retracing each figure while judges got down on their hands and knees to search for the slightest bulge in a circle or the telltale double line that proved a competitor had used (heaven forbid...
Leverett House splashed past Kirkland Tuesday to win the intramural swimming championship for the second year in a row. The score was a lopsided 27-13, and the Bunnies set two new intramural records...
...against Kirkland means that Leverett will represent Harvard Houses against Yale's best college squad (Yale's Colleges are equivalent to Harvard's Houses) at New Haven this weekend. Last year, Leverett rolled over Davenport College, Yale's best, by a score of 41-36. It thus became the first Harvard House to win this contest since 1946. Yale will determine an opponent to Leverett this week when their intramural competition ends...
...tactics -- where both team members try to cover the opposition's pieces with their own winks and shoot for the pot only late in the game -- to squidge-squopp. In this style of play, one man tries to neutralize the opposition by squopping, while his teammate goes for the score...