Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...game played at Dartmouth's Memorial Stadium yesterday afternoon, the Big Green's undefeated freshman football team dominated play and handed the Crimson freshmen their second loss in three starts. The score...
...year ago today, an injury-riddled Dartmouth football team suffered a humiliating defeat in Harvard Stadium. It was the first time that the Big Green had lost that badly to a Crimson team in almost seventy years, and it marked the turning point in a Dartmouth season that was to progressively become worse...
Last week in Paris, France's shopkeepers staged their biggest demonstration yet. Some 25,000 grocers and hoteliers, barbers and plumbers, from as far away as Corsica, crowded into the Pare des Princes stadium to protest stiff taxes and rising competition from modern large-scale retailers. They carried banners proclaiming "Crushed to Death by the Taxman" and "We Want to Live." Some wanted to fight, too. Swarming through the streets, 2,000 of them attacked police in a 45-minute fracas that ended in 30 injuries and 13 arrests. It was the worst clash since the May 1968 riots...
...play baseball very well. They were, as everyone knows, terrible. But the people of Flushing Meadow loved them; they loved the antics performed by the Amazin's and they loved their names: Marvelous Marv Throneberry, Hot Rod Kanehl, Choo Choo Coleman. The people went to Shea Stadium, where the Mets booted away their home games and waved banners that proclaimed LOSING ISN'T EVERYTHING-IT'S THE ONLY THING...
...kept the world in high humor for seven Pagliaccian years, triumphed in four succeeding contests to win the World Series. Their praises were trumpeted throughout the land. The people of New York went gloriously insane. They danced and sang and flooded the streets with paper; they tore the Shea Stadium turf to shreds and carried it home for souvenirs. King Lindsay the Shrewd, who after four precarious years of rule in his beleaguered city had come to understand the merit of identifying with a winner, appeared to anoint the Mets with effervescent waters. But the victory belonged to the doughty...