Word: solider
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem, stated simply, has been this: while Harvard has played pretty, textbook soccer up and down the field, the offense has failed to get its act together on key scoring chances, while the solid defense has let a couple of weird goals slip by in unsettled situations...
...tent a quarter of an hour before King made his entrance. "Dump the Duke," they chanted, although the just-announced concession speech made that sentiment a bit dated. Then a touch of originality: "The Duke is dead, long live the King," on and on for a solid seven minutes--good, lusty, raw-throated cheering. Then the man struggled into the tent and the blood frenzy began, an animal roar on the verge of losing control, the disbelief and delight and confusion all muddled together, losing all sense. The band switched from its 14th rendering of "Stardust," all of them...
...John Kennedy in 1963, when after the Cuban missile crisis he successfully completed the nuclear test-ban treaty with the Soviet Union. And even Richard Nixon, never really a man to engender affection, at least won broad respect when he came back from Peking and Moscow in 1972 with solid entries in his ledger...
Burt Lancaster, who has been playing veteran soldiers since long before he became a veteran actor, is in command of the American detachment and in solid command of the best starring role he has had in years (he was, of course, superb as the dying patriarch, a character role in Bertolucci's sprawling 1900). Without the slightest fuss, he gives us a portrait of a dutybound professional whose soldierly instincts tell him that his duty this time is madness. Revolt is beyond his character, but disgust is not. Lancaster's presence, carrying with it the memory of other...
Those errors, too common of late, marred an otherwise solid day from the Sox, both at bat and in the field. Dennis Eckersley and Stanley combined for a strong pitching performance, and the seven Sox runs halted a pitiful silence from the Boston bats...