Word: stanza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hampton's Paul Piatellit slapped the puck into the upper left corner past Harvard netminder Doug Roche at 10:00 into the third stanza to give the Huskies an insurmountable lead. Piatellit converted a crisp pass from Daryl McLeod after an inept Harvard power play failed to keep the puck in the Huskie zone...
...verse he had written on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's reign. It was as if the mother tongue of Shakespeare and Milton had lapsed into baby talk. Betjeman's quatrains palpitated with cliches and such treacly rhymes as people/steeple, dutiful/beautiful and blue/true. Stanza 4 particularly captured the poem's schoolboy earnestness...
...opening minutes of the second stanza replayed the first period. Harvard skated well, pressured the Cod zone, slammed shots and dominated the ice--but did not score...
Harvard played a crisp, cohesive ball through most of the first half, as the cagers seemed well on their way to snapping a four-game Ivy League losing streak, but could muster only 22 points in the second stanza...
...yardlings eliminated the possibility of a shut-out less than a minute and a half into the second stanza as George Arnold batted one past the Merrimack netminder. Jim Dales and Charlie Maniekis notched assists on the play...