Word: skates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fresh off its victory in the Bean-pot, the debut of its own line of glossy trading cards and its return to Bright Hockey Center, Harvard set the tone it wanted early. A skate-and-shoot attack helped the Crimson outgun Yale 37-19 in shots and overwhelm Yale sophomore goaltender Todd Sullivan...
...hard Harvard fans had to concede that sitting in our corner just wasn't that much fun." Well, Mayo is the only Harvard fan I know who would concede that. And as far as being a die-hard, if Mayo is a die-hard, then I can skate as well as Ted Drury...
...senior Matt Mallgrave's stick shattered in a collision against the boards, and Harvard was caught with one man down and one man without a stick. But the senior made the best of a lost situation, forechecking and pestering every BU defender. It paid off, as Mallgrave found his skate on the puck on the right side by the blueline and cleared...
Then there's Belated. Here is where the real trouble starts. Belated, obviously another form of late, means "too late," "tardy." So this word set in the between Happy and Birthday transforms the phrase into a too late, finding your skate key, bubble of glee, day on which someone was birthed...
...birthday is November 9, and my roommate forgets and shows up at my door on November 10th and wishes me Happy Birthday, my two kinds of ice cream, finding my skate key day of birth immediately becomes two days instead of the usual one. Now, I am entitled to all the benefits and joys of two happy birthdays--four kinds of ice cream, finding my skate key twice...