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Take our mandarin oranges. I once stayed in a Soviet hotel with a Japanese figure skater. He wanted to know what kind of fruit was on sale that was small, sour and green and got scooped up into bags. I told him they were mandarin oranges. "They can't be," he said. "I know what a mandarin orange is." What could I say? Maybe they get specially harvested as buds just for our people, so we'll walk around with sour faces...
...team had to taste the bittersweet taste of losing," Fish says. "You can't judge what type of effort you need without losing. It's like a figure skater who never falls. She's not trying hard enough to fall. I think that the team benefited from that loss...
...nothing else surprises you, the faces will. Captain Terry Murray is the lone returner. Seniors Murry Gunty and Dan Mahoney, along with sophomore Mike Foster, should see action in the top five. Olympic skater Lane MacDonald may be the fifth man, but several other candidates may fill the opening in the lineup...
...Lane's forte is his skating," Crocker said. "He is an excellent skater and a bigger player than we thought. He is also stronger for having gone through the Olympic program...
...obvious that the club-level Terriers were in for a long evening when the Crimson scored less than a minute into the game. Throughout the evening there seemed to be twice as many Harvard players on the ice: wherever the puck went, a Crimson skater was there...