Word: skater
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Captain Greg Olson's broken ankle, suffered when he was checked into the boards near the Harvard bench by a Princeton skater December 18, may sideline the high scoring senior for the season. He was fitted with a cast which won't be removed until mid-February--even then he won't be able to skate immediately. Olson had been the team's steadiest scorer, scoring points in eight straight games...
...news; in the third period of the Crimson's 9-2 pounding of Princeton December 18, a Tiger skater pounded Harvard Captain Greg Olson into the sideboards, leaving him with a broken ankle which will probably sideline him for the rest of the season...
Davison, a professional skater who spent much of her high school days competing against well-known champions like Dorothy Hamill and Elaine Zayak, has picked up a hockey stick and donned bulkier skates for the Harvard women's team...
...high school Alison was a champion figure skater. In Mauritania there is no ice. In fact, there is very little but sand, She was told by the people who assigned her to that country that 70 percent of Mauritania bound volunteers quit in their first year. The natives are starving, disease runs rampant, and water is searce. Foliage in Mauritania is gradually disappearing under sand dunes, which are creeping across the country at a rate of several thousand feof each year. It seems strange to me that our own New England sun, which turns the fall sky ice blue, sparkles...
Heavyweight Challenger Gerry Cooney quotes its lines with fervor. Olympic Figure Skater David Santee trained to its triumphant sound-track music. Its plot is adapted by feature writers and by coaches for locker-room pep talks. At V.F.W. halls, in cocktail lounges, and surgical scrub rooms, Americans on any occasion of victory or defeat, no matter how evanescent, are liable to exclaim, "It's just like Rocky!" The story of the virtuous and vulnerable heavyweight, Rocky Balboa, the Philadelphia club fighter who "went the distance" (Rocky, 1976) and battled to the championship (Rocky II, 1979), has become...