Word: skips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leslie "Skip" Griffin '70, a black who Garrity lured from a job in the Cambridge schools to become assistant headmaster in South Boston, tells a similar story. "There was an incident that started up in the cafeteria, some insults exchanged. I went up to the black kid involved and told him, 'stay cool, man; go along with us.' He immediately moved to the back of the room and stayed there. Now there was nothing I could have done if that kid hadn't decided to do that. This was a big kid. But I guess this guy decided to trust...
...slick surface was a factor for much of the game as players from both teams watched the ball skip away from them and bounce over their heads. But Chinaglia adjusted quickly and so did Pele, New York's field general...
...second game, pinch-hitter Skip Deitz cracked a run-scoring single off Linehan in the seventh, breaking a 3-3 tie and sending Harvard to its 17th loss of the year...
...Horse sounded relieved by its freedom from scholarly "corruption." On the other hand, Stratis Haviaras, who takes care of Lamont's Poetry Room, claims that when there's "an increase in literary activity in a community, you'll find it reflected at Harvard." Ploughshare's DeWitt Henry would rather skip the university connection altogether and suggested you could think of the event as "a moveable feast...
...market does not go up and stay up, it is due for a drop. Reason: in Gould's view, human nature can rarely stand more than three tries at anything. If, for instance, a salesman rings three doorbells and fails to make a sale, he is likely to skip the fourth and take in a movie...