Word: shavings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generated by human societies. I learned a lot of things in jail too." In 1971 Marshall spent two months in Terminal Island Prison in Los Angeles and six more at Clearwater Prison camp in Washington State on a contempt of court conviction. "At Terminal Island I wouldn't shave, so they put me on death row. Prison shook a lot of my preconceptions. I met some characters in prison who were just plain...
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...illness struck one of Harvard's key performers, David Lundberg, the week before the championships. But the most significant reason for Harvard's relatively poor showing has to be that the Crimson chose to shave down earlier in the season to whip Indiana in their highly acclaimed dual-meet battle. The psychological effect of a shave-down is rarely effective more than once in a given season, and to expect lifetime best performances in the weeks following such a shave is simply not a reasonable presumption...
...Crimson mentor Joe Bernal stated yesterday, "We needed to shave to beat Indiana, and I have no regrets about that decision." Perhaps Bernal overestimated Harvard's ability to rebound from this first shave, but that was a gamble, perhaps well-taken. And as any confirmed blackjack player will tell you, the high-risk, well-planned strategy is the only one to take...
...goal is to improve each time, but the "streamlined" feeling created by the removal of hair lessens with each shave. The hair simply hasn't grown back. On the other hand, neither of the first shaves were accompanied by a total taper (ten days or so of almost complete rest when practices consist of minimal yardage while working on race-pace and details like starts, turns and finishes...