Word: stanzas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your stanza, patterned on a sonnet...
...winning combination of youth and age, the CRIMSON took control with a seven-run outburst in the opening stanza. From there on the only question was whether manager Don "The Gnat" Graham would be able to hold the score down to a merciful...
Toronto's Dave Keon singlehandedly engineered the Maple Leaf victory, blasting in two first-period goals and adding the clincher with 11 seconds left in the contest. Ageless Johnny Bower, the Leafs' goaltender, held Montreal scoreless until 7:27 of the final stanza...
...roof fell in. Brown took to the airways, and marched down the field, finally scoring on a short buck. With fumbles and interceptions plaguing the Yardlings, Brown got possession of the ball and took the lead on a 30-yard pass play in the waning moments of the antepenultimate stanza...
Novelists and short-story writers are a glut on the literary market, but a man who can dance a light fantastic stanza without tripping over his dactyls is a treasure to be prized. John Updike was a light versifier before he became a novelist, and his latest verse demonstrates that he is perhaps the best player of the game since Ogden Nash and Morris Bishop came into their prime...