Word: sodded
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dying sod of Harvard Stadium, an MIT-planted prank stole the show and avenged years of on-field football absence at the 99th playing of The Game...
...plot’s origins date back 40 years to when a group from MIT’s Delta Kappa Epsilon (Dekes) fraternity planted explosive cords, developed for use by demolition experts in WWII, in hopes of blasting the school’s initials into the sod before the Harvard-Yale game that year. The grounds crew discovered the explosives and school officials expelled the students involved soon after...
Grounds crew members repairing the sod discovered the device and The Game went on without incident...
...Lower East Side where I later chose to live. But there wasn't a single tree for blocks around. In fact, when we moved in there wasn't even any grass. I remember my father out in front, in the dirt patch meant to be a yard, unloading sod and pressing it down with a huge steel sod-roller. To me it was like living in a desert. Walking home from school, sitting on a curb playing marbles, riding my bike - there was never a break from the sun. It felt like Arizona, not Ohio...
...bold move to have an unfunny, unpleasant, rather pathetic character be your focus. But Watson has a skill with making Rob's downward spiral believable. He never resorts to clumsy pathos, and even succeeds in keeping just a hint of sympathy for the poor sod. It feels right...