Word: skating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bell has really a five-man line when the first-stringers are on the ice; defensemen Tom Casey and Dean Webb skate like towards in a weave pattern that has baffled opponents. When the second team takes over, big Phil Johnston and John Palmer play the conventional defensive game in the rear guard...
Some undergraduates now playing on Crimson varsity squads have reported that the use of coaches by League rivals has often backfired in Harvard's favor, the writer said. He quoted one athlete as saying, "I began to wonder whether other schools' coaches wanted me to skate or study. Sure, Harvard is interested in my athletic ability, but it never dominated the issue of my coming here...
...MAGICIAN OF LUBLIN, by Isaac Bashevis Singer (246 pp.; Noonday; $3.50), is a tender, philosophical tale about Yasha Mazur, who makes his living in the circuses and theaters of 19th century Poland. He can skate on the high wire, eat fire, swallow swords, open any safe or lock (if Yasha had chosen crime, they said in Lublin, no one's house would be safe), and, above all, charm any woman. Blithely, he considers himself neither Jew nor gentile: there is a Supreme Being, he decides, but one who reveals himself to no one and gives no indication of what...
Deep under the china-blue Straits of Florida last week prowled a black and sinister shadow: the U.S. nuclear submarine Skate. Since Skate is almost as fast as any surface vessel and can dodge like a rabbit, the U.S. destroyer leader Norfolk had little chance of touching her with conventional antisub weapons. But on the Norfolk's afterdeck a clumsy-looking box swung like a gun turret. A section of it tilted, doors popped open, and with a screaming roar a slender rocket slanted upward, trailing a feather of flame. Near the top of the climb the engine section...
...Chinese boxes. School buses headed toward the season's last mile; power mowers and outboard motors pulsed the season's first promise. Fragrance of honeysuckle and roses overlay the smell of charcoal and seared beef. The thud of baseball against mitt, the abrasive grind of roller skate against concrete, the jarring harmony of the Good Humor bell tolled the day; the clink of ice, the distant laugh, the surge of hi-fi through the open window came with the night...