Word: surprisingness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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COLUMBIA at DARTMOUTH--This could be the upset pick for this week. One could imagine Columbia rebounding off the 69-0 Rutgers fiasco and surprising the Big Green. One could imagine the Lions, who nearly won this game last year, getting their Veer offense together and beating up on the...
The workers' vote, however, does not indicate satisfaction with the contract. The dining hall workers simply preferred working under an inadequate contract to going on strike, with the financial hardships a strike entails. Harvard's refusal to compromise is hardly surprising, given the University's generally callous attitude toward union...
But the surprising choice was not universally hailed. Many Italians, particularly in the hierarchy, saw the loss of the papacy after 4½ centuries as a defeat and a reprimand. Noting that Wojtyla's predecessor was not a Vatican bureaucrat but a pastor (Archbishop and Primate of Venice), one Curia prelate...
But if the New Jersey crowd was bored, the Franklin Field crowd was shocked as Penn ran up a surprising 17-3 lead over struggling Yale, only to see its hopes fade into a frustrating 17-17 tie in the closing seconds.
In another surprising finish Saturday, Dartmouth shocked the Cornell faithful by putting the cap on Joe Holland, the nation's leading rusher, and following halfback Jeff Dufresne to a 14-7 win.