Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard probably has the best last-five-minute hockey team in the East. Another superhuman effort Friday night netted the two tying goals against Boston College just 46 seconds apart, but Eagle Jack Cusack's 20-foot slap shot at 6:33 of the sudden death period sent the Crimson home with a 3-2 defeat. The junior varsity and freshman teams were defeated by 5-3 and 3-0 scores, respectively...
...trailing by a goal. Eagle speedster Ron Walsh capitalized on a tactic he used all evening, skating hard down the left alley and behind the nets, then centering to his center or wing. In this case he found Bill Daley waiting in front, and a 20-foot slap shot eluded Pratt...
...impressive as the rocket was its timing-accidental or designed. The shot heralded the mission to Washington of Khrushchev's No. 1 aide, Anastas Mikoyan (see Foreign Relations), dramatically topped the U.S.'s recent Atlas successes and put the U.S.S.R. ahead in the prestige-packed race for space. The cosmic rocket, Moscow said in a dozen languages, was the net result of "the creative toil of the whole Soviet people [in] the development of Socialist society in the interests of all progressive mankind...
...hour before word of the Russian shot, the House space committee recommended that the U.S. probe the moon with a couple of Thor-Able rockets now lying at Cape Canaveral. Even after the news from Moscow, Montana's Democratic Senator Mike Mansfield disapproved-"a sign of panic." Underlying the absence of excuses-and the absence of panic-was a general public knowledge that the U.S. had already tried to hit the moon, had failed, had been left trailing by the Russians, but not by very much...
...Beaver-brook's fellow Canadians were casualties. But the feeling goes deeper. Noel Coward's wartime movie In Which We Serve was built around his friend Mountbatten's own heroism as commander of the destroyer Kelly. Beaverbrook blames Mountbatten for not getting Coward to delete a shot of drowning sailors, in which a copy of the Daily Express floats by, with its famed 1939 headline: THERE WILL BE NO WAR THIS YEAR...