Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's hockey team put up a spirited fight against Boston University last sight, but found out that hustie and pluck are as substitute for teamwork and sheer talent. The Crimson lost, 4 to 2, to the best hockey team in the East...
...sheer fun, the top movie was Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, a nostalgic, slapstick, visual comedy closely followed by Cat Ballon, with Lee Marvin in a sidesplitting parody of all the drunken, woolly bad 'uns ever portrayed. For sheer horror it was Repulsion, by Poland s young Roman Polanski, the new master of the monstrous. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold was the spy thriller to end all spy thrillers-and perhaps about time...
Thus, gas propels Bulge toward the grandiose tank battle that eventually spells German defeat, but all the rest of the picture seems to run on sheer gall. On the questionable assumption that ferocious truth must be offset by comedy relief, there is a black-marketeering U.S. sergeant (Telly Savalas) who blunders into heroic deeds. Even the massacre of 125 G.I. prisoners at Malmédy has a silver lining, since it turns simpering Lieut. James MacArthur into a fit soldier...
...from Foreign Policy Association President Samuel Hayes (viola-B) to a Manhattan night elevator operator (cello-B) who held wee-hour sessions in the coal bin of his building. Says Miss Rice: "There are a great many of us queer ducks who really love to play just for the sheer...
...plenty. "They don't rush the passer," says one National League coach. "Their quarterbacks have all day to get the ball away." American League coaches, on the other hand, charge that such "sophisticated" maneuvers as the safety blitz are actually pirated A.F.L. inventions. And When it comes to sheer size and strength on defense, the A.F.L. refuses to take a back seat to anybody. The defensive line of the champion Buffalo Bills averages 275 Ibs. per man-18 Ibs. per man more than the N.F.L.'s champion Browns. Then there are the San Diego Chargers. Defensive End Earl...