Word: see-sawed
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...See-Saw Battle...
...see-saw battle developed in the early minutes of the second half. Harvard finally went ahead to stay on a Tony Jenkins tapin half way through the period. Carey and Silver helped to build a 58-47 lead with 1:42 left in the game. But a late Yale rally, again featuring baskets by Franks and Cartmell in the last minute of play, brought the final score...
...kids, the husbands, the movies in town, in deprecating tones of the latest divorces, in defensive tones of the headlines they don't understand (their turned off kids, their shaky economy, their President who lies through his teeth). The talk rocks back and forth all day like a see-saw gone haywire. Everybody gets off on everybody else and together they screen out the world...
...exercises which were used in conditioning for crew epitomized the mental "see-saw" ride that crew was for me. The first was running up and down the steps of Harvard stadium--sometimes for fifty repetitions--during winter conditioning. The problem was not altogether physical because many people had done it before, and I was capable of enduring. There were mental barriers to be overcome--the doubts that would run through my head as I endured the painful exercise were manifold. Why was I doing it in the first place? This was a question that continually returned as the rigors...
...Yale's see-saw battle with the Tigers went down to the final relay, which the Elis took in a fast 3:10.8. It took both relays in the meet, and split the Princeton divers which earlier had swept Harvard. The Crimson is undefeated this season in the 400-yd. free relay, and all indications are that the outcome of next Saturday's contest could very well depend on which team can take the final race and the seven unanswered points that go to the winner...