Word: short
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...round as a hoot owl's eye, the hunter's moon rose in its full phase last week, and political hunters by the score burst into feverish bush beating, suddenly aware that the season was all too short. The first crucial presidential primary-New Hampshire's on March 8-was barely 20 weeks away. The gavel would call the Democratic convention to order in Los Angeles in less than nine months, with the Republican convention in Chicago only two weeks behind. And soon after the hunter's moon of 1960 had waned to a sliver...
...Republican camp there was the briefest stillness as Vice President Richard Nixon left off campaigning for a short vacation in Palm Beach. It was shattered hours later in Albany when New York's Nelson Rockefeller announced plans for a November invasion of Nixon's own hunting preserve in California, with the implicit promise that the G.O.P., too, faced a real contest for its political blue ribbon...
...afternoon when the heavies were commuting from Henley to their lodgings at Shiplake, someone asked the Crimson manager what time the train left. "6:32," he replied. By the next morning it was common knowledge that the heavies had rowed a trial heat in 6.32, only two seconds short of the record...
...Indians threatened again in the last two minutes of the game when they recovered another fumble on the Harvard 40. With Nyhan calling defensive signals, however, the team tightened and held. Dartmouth tried a last-ditch field goal attempt that fell short by two or three feet...
...Graham, James '60 21 6:3 202 Battle Creek, Mich. 64 Clark, Philip '60 21 5:10 203 Sacramento, Cal. 63 Chapman, Charles '61 21 5:11 185 Darien, Conn. 61 Lasch, Steven '62 19 5:11 182 Chicago, Ill. 60 *Boye, Robert '60 21 5:10 191 Short Hills, N. J. CENTERS 75 Grudi, Walter '62 19 6:3 205 Washington, Pa. 54 *DeHaven, Kenneth '61 20 6:1 202 Dayton, O. 53 Tragakis, William '62 19 5:8 184 Watertown, Mass. 51 McElhinney, James '61 20 6:1 199 Denver, Colo. BACKS 49 Marrone, Richard...