Word: seesaws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freshman have an open date next week and then take on the Boston College freshmen on October 19. Last year's B.C. game was a seesaw battle that finally ended in a Crimson defeat, 28-26. "We'll be up for B.C. I've waited a year for the rematch and the team is going to be ready," O'Neill said...
...city that will not be resettled is Quang Tri, which was completely destroyed in the seesaw battles that followed the Easter offensive. It is a modern-day Dresden, with not a single building intact, nor a yelping dog, nor a piece of washing on the line. No one lives there, apart from some members of the International Commission of Control and Supervision and a small South Vietnamese army contingent...
...remainder of the first half was a seesaw battle as the Knicks and the Celtics traded the lead four more times. New York, once they seized the advantage the last time in the half, raced to a quick eight point lead. In the closing moments of the first half, the Celts crept back within two as the half ended...
...seesaw battle continued, as Conolly fed Andy Scheffer an extra-man to make it four-all. The Minutemen then went ahead on a hard, screened shot by Dwight Blomquist...
This is more or less what has happened to the 1958 hit Two for the Seesaw-except that the blender breaks down from time to time. The hero, Jerry Ryan, is a WASP lawyer on separation leave from 1) Omaha and 2) his wife. Ken Howard, who plays this role, bears an uncanny physical resemblance to New York Mayor John Vliet Lindsay. The heroine, Gittel Mosca (Michele Lee), is an artsy Jewish girl on the lam from The Bronx to Greenwich Village. She is spunky and sassy, but inwardly scared. Out of mutual need, the pair promptly share bedded bliss...