Word: shin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rutledge won all three of his matches against Engineer swordsmen. While the outcome was still in doubt in the early going, he trounced MIT sabre star Robert Shin, 5-1, to end an MIT rally...
...Birmingham atrocity. Two weeks ago, an I.R.A. terrorist named James McDaid, 28, blew himself to bits while planting a bomb in Coventry, 15 miles east of Birmingham. On Thursday, McDaid's body was to be flown from Birmingham to Belfast for a "military funeral" and burial. The Shin Fein, the I.R.A.'s political whig, planned to turn the moving of his body from a Coventry mortuary to a Birmingham airport into a defiant and inflammatory hero's farewell. Some 1,500 police were on hand to enforce a government ban on the demonstration. The Birmingham bombs were...
...black beret (the insigne of the I.R.A.) on top, will lie in state this week in Irish sectors of London and Manchester, as well as in Dublin. Then his corpse will be buried in County Mayo. Gaughan's death, said Malachy Foots, a spokesman for the Provisional Shin Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing, "has been seen in Ireland in the same light as if it had been caused by a bullet from a British army rifle...
...sings Anthony Burgess in a loud, hoarse baritone. "Those E-flat major chords get the reader awake." Then in deep, funereal tones, quoting from his own book, he continues: "There he lies/ Ensanguinated tyrant/ O bloody, bloody tyrant/ See/ How the sin within/ Doth incarnadine/ His skin/ From the shin to the chin." "Perhaps," he adds, "Knopf should have given away a free record with every copy...
Harvard's offense, paced by fullback Brian Fearnett, has been lackluster throughout the entire season. The team's scoring problem was emphasized last week when only two shots on goal were taken against the Quakers. Fearnett has developed shin problems, possibly tendonitis, and will not be playing at full strength. The Crimson squad has thus relied heavily on its sometimes effective defense, led by goalie Steve Kidder...