Word: screws
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...performance, a repetition of various cheers, stunts, and intimidate-the-opposition tactics perfected over the years: the fans pretending to read newspapers when the Harvard team was introduced and throwing them in the air when the Big Red skated to center ice, the deafening cry of "Screw B.U. Harvard too!"; the slow, neurotic chanting of an opposing player's name (both Olsons were targeted); and, especially, the rhythmic clapping, led a by a student tapping a cowbell...
...Newman: "Yeah, but you'd screw up second gear"). The only "Paul Newman" nonsense of the evening is harmless: a very pretty teen-age waitress turns pink and forgets her list of pies as she stares at Paul. He twists his nose goofily between thumb and forefinger and goes cross-eyed; she turns pinker and hides her face, bubbling with giggles. Someone tells him that he did well in an hourlong nuclear-freeze interview for Ted Turner's Cable News Network; he is not sure. On the air he knows his material cold, but some instinct for humility...
What lay behind Korniyenko's initial outburst? Soviet officials explained, with some embarrassment, that Korniyenko had simply been spouting on his own. Said a Soviet journalist: "It was a bureaucratic screw-up." Perhaps. Although Soviet trade officials were taking the American businessmen aside last week and telling them to ignore Korniyenko's speech, no one could be sure that it had not been intended as a deliberate warning that, however much Andropov may want to ease tensions with the U.S., he will not do so at the cost of abandoning fundamental Soviet policies...
...simple valor-so basic, so appealing, so appalling. Probably every game or type of conflict has it, but the others are not stripped to the waist or the bone. "Kill the quarterback" is mostly a figure of speech. Randall ("Tex") Cobb, a plain-speaking heavyweight, says, "If you screw up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass, darling...
Sophomore Jamie Jenkins, with junior Gail Aidinoff along screw, skittered Harvard to victory in the championship's "A" division, taking top honors her class with 68 points. Team captain Rony Sebok, with junior crew Ann Skartvedt alongside, skittered the Crimson to a first place finish in the "B" division, tallying a low score...