Word: squanderers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...didn't quite come up with all 57 varieties, but the squad did squander 11 hits and commit seven errors to let Harvard roll to a 9-2 victory and the coveted Cambridge championship. The Crimson, meanwhile, parlayed eight hits and numerous walks, along with a nearly flawless defense, to run off with the three and a half hour Cantabridgian free-athon...
...writer of those pieces never wasted a line. The only thing he seemed to squander was his life. The heir to a relentlessly middle-class colonial tradition, Orwell gained a scholarship to Eton, then made a false start as a policeman in Burma. Out of that five-year catastrophe came the embittered radical who could dissect his emotions and his country with pitiless surgery...
...Crimson was extremely fortunate in that its opponent was Yale, for not many other teams would squander 16-point leads (29-13 after nearly 13 minutes), or fail to ice a game with as many chances as the Bulldogs had Saturday night...
Ford's closest advisers and friends in Congress have counseled him to go further, and not to involve himself any longer in the impeachment fight, that it is a time for his silence. They argue, with reason, that he should not squander in partisanship his potential for bringing the racked nation together again if Nixon is removed from office...
...wouldn't mind having to pay higher taxes and higher prices if our fatuous leaders wouldn't squander the money on nations with infantile policies of aggression. Giving nuclear reactors and know-how to Arab nations is like giving a razor blade to a baby. Nixon was prepared to sacrifice most of his staff to get the Watergate heat off his back. Is he preparing to sacrifice the prosperity of the U.S. and the security of the world...