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...final moments, Wellesley appeared to recover its strength momentarily. But a Trumbull spike gave Harvard the chance to finish the game, and Wong tipped the ball over the net to bring the evening's competition to a close...
...BLOODY SPIKE...
...problem, as the revolutionary armies and the party saw it in 1949, was Mao's thinking. "Mao Thought" should not be considered simply a dogma, or a slogan, least of all a coherent doctrine. It should be thought of as a spike, driven by the will of one man into the minds of his people, to nail them to his purpose. But in the next 25 years the spike was driven through the living flesh of people until they bled, or hungered, or died at random, until life became chaos. The spike had to be torn out or half China...
...alike, anyone with an education, anyone suspected of murmuring protest, in the bureaucracy, or the universities, or the army, could be sent down. All universities, except for military research centers, were closed, some for three years, some for five, some for a full ten. And, as dogma drove the spike into the flesh of the country, even the revered ancients of the revolution were pushed to death. Li Ta, one of the original founding fathers of the Communist Party of China in 1921, was "struggled" against until he committed suicide. He Long, a Robin Hood peasant bandit who became...
...joined All-Ivy First Team... Chang was selected to the All-Ivy Second Team... The famous cowbell used in hockey games made a surprise appearance in the finals, much to the 40-person crowd's satisfaction... The Tigers received a heavy dose of "sieve" chants after each successful Crimson spike... The spikers ended the season with a 37-2 overall mark, 12-1 in post-season competition...