Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Depending on speed rather than fancy stick work, the Ithacans outran a strong Baltimore University team 15 to 11 in an early spring victory and could give the varsity a trying time this afternoon as well...
...Crimson defense is working well with Dave Grannis leading the way. Returning letterman Henry Field ("probably the best stick handling defenseman in the league") has recently joined the squad and will start with Grannis and Kessler today. If this defensive unit and goalie Gil Leaf keep Engineer scoring within reason, Crimson scoring power should carry...
...Tibet is the palm of the hand, and the Chinese have it," says one Indian. "Now they want the five fingers without which the palm is useless." The five fingers (see color map) are Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and the North East Frontier Agency. To the Chinese, all five stick out like sore thumbs...
...know how children are sometimes, very cruel. So I used to go to school either at five minutes to 9, when everybody was almost in, or at 8 o'clock, because nobody was there." On the door of her house, her schoolmates scrawled the word stecchetto (little stick) because she was as thin...
...little stick suddenly blossomed. Gymnastics classes were held in the Roman amphitheater, and the men of Pozzuoli began to show up to watch Sophia doing calisthenics. "It became a pleasure just to stroll down the street," Sophia remembers. Mamma had thought that Sophia should try to become a teacher, but she took another look and put her in a beauty contest. She won a secondary prize that included 15.000 lire and some wallpaper, which still decorates Grandfather Villani's living room in Pozzuoli. In the spring of 1950, mother and daughter went off to Rome to seek work...