Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cross country team, running their best race since the season opener against Northeastern, fell four points short yesterday afternoon as Boston University edged the Crimson for the Greater Boston Championship crown, 41-45, at Franklin Park...
Bill Robinson followed with a short liner to left. Ayala caught this one, but heaved a pop fly somewhere to the right of home plate. permitting Ott to tag up and score...
However, Harvard's assistant women's track coach John Babington, who has coached Beckford on the AAU Liberty Club since 1977, has an explanation: "Darlene's temperament is such that she'd rather concentrate her efforts over short, intense races than over 18 minutes. She just doesn't get as much spontaneous enjoyment out of running cross country...
When embedded in McGeeish boredom in Burma he wrote his first short story. After a few disastrous jobs in the Manhattan jungle, the apprentice author be came a penny-a-liner for the pulps; since then he has banged out 70 novels and some 600 short stories. He calls his tales "why-did-its," not whodunits, and likes to think of them as "folk dances." Since most of his books have been published in paperback, he has thus far escaped serious critical attention in the U.S. A pity...
...cast, for the most part, deserves such a show--one would be pressed to find three stage personalities as obnoxious as Brian McCue, Grace Shohet, and Fred Barton. With his pinched face and short catalogue of exaggerated expressions, McCue mugs like an eight-year old who wants a new tricycle; Shohet evokes Ethel Merman; Barton, the ham-handed piano player, thinks it's enough to bellow in a smug voice and grin idiotically like George Burns, jutting his prognathous jaw like a salient into the Comic Void...