Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best of the nation's youth is slowly being beaten to an impoverished pulp, it is essential that the MDC take steps to conserve a vital resource. A foot patrol, for example, could be stationed near Weeks Bridge, ready to respond to the sounds of battle. Or locks could be installed on the switchboxes. Or the MDC officers could be a wee more observant as they speed by in their cruiser chargers...
...rejected the proposal that four of them stay on (and these four could be alternated from game to game). If any of them were to be forced out of their jobs, the whole squad would quit in a body. The Council promptly lined up four more athlete cheerleaders to take part in the Princeton game, and the disgruntled incumbents' show at the Penn game was their last...
Fortunately, Joseph de Pasquale, the principal violist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who was guest soloist in the Berlioz, produced a performance which was absorbing enough to take attention away from some of the orchestra's defects, and at the same time add an element of warmth which was absent from the orchestral accompaniment...
...important to take note of the unusually receptive response from the audience as an indication that listeners are looking for something other than letter-perfect but perfunctory performances of works that can be handled easily by each last-desk player. This is not to say that the orchestra should schedule an all-Strauss program for its next concert, but that a performance which is enjoyable and interesting to the musicians will give much more pleasure to the audience as well...
Another maneuver designed to take advantage of the same weakness was a flashy double-reverse known as the "Sally Rand." The Quakers used it only twice; but the first time it went for a touchdown (from the Harvard 21), and on the other occasion it provided 24 crucial yards in the midst of Penn's second scoring drive...