Word: sudden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's rugby team traded penalty kicks with Dartmouth for two halves of Saturday's game and finally lost in sudden-death overtime on another...
CORNELL-YALE: Cornell's coming off a pretty fair Saturday, but so is Yale. Both teams are better than anyone expected, and all of a sudden my heart sings. In a sentimental throwback to the marvelous years of Mantle and Maris, Yale is referring to Joe Massey and Don Martin as its M and M boys. Ingenious. Cornell's M boy, Ed Marinaro, is also pretty good. The big thing here is, can Cornell's great rushing attack overcome Yale's great defense against rushing? Neither team can afford to lose. The Big Red is coming fast, and it would...
Senator Barry Goldwater had a plan of his own: resumption of U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam on Nov. 1 if the Paris negotiations remain deadlocked. A fellow Arizona Republican, Representative Sam Steiger, enlisted 14 House members to sign a letter to Nixon demanding "a sudden major escalation of the war with one aim?victory!" Cavalry calls such as this had a pro forma ring; no one in Washington expects Nixon even to consider them seriously...
...arms behind me so that my body was bent forward. Whenever I tried to straighten up, a Red Guard punched me in the stomach. I sweated so much that a pool formed on the ground under my eyes and I could see my reflection in it." Then, after a sudden silence followed by applause, "I was told to straighten up. A few inches in front of my eyes dangled the body of my cat, Ming Ming, hanged from the roof by a washing line." When the crowd began chanting "Hang Grey," he was roughly ushered back inside the house...
...playing a game" explanation, with the religious motive perhaps mixed in, seems the most likely. Death would be a likely topic for the group simply because of the sudden passing of their manager, Brian Epstein, in the summer of 1967, and Paul, specifically, may have wished to be identified with death on the Beatle albums. Most of the "clues" about Paul's death are not clear-cut; the Beatles' extensive use of symbolism and seemingly meaningless language leaves them especially open to all kids of interpretations...