Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deadlock keeps the Crimson in the thick of the dog-eat-dog Ivy race, but unless the Harvard offense stops leading a dog's life, the Cantabs stand less than a dog's chance of taking the title...
...make their case in quiet, behind-the-scenes contacts. Not Prince Bandar ibn Sultan, 34, who played an instrumental role in arranging the cease-fire in Lebanon and who has just been appointed as Saudi Arabia's new Ambassador to the U.S. He likes to be in the thick of the action...
...weight down. Divorced (1926) from his first wife, he was remarried a year later to Pauline Pfeiffer, then a Paris fashion writer for Vogue, has had by her two sons, Patrick and Gregory Hancock. Since 1930, he has made his home at Key West, living there in a thick-walled, Spanish-built house, its garden somewhat incongruously inhabited by peacocks. His 30-ft. launch El Pilar he uses for casual pleasure jaunts, trips to Cuba (90 miles away)-and fishing. A Roman Catholic, he is also very superstitious: he never travels on Friday, touches wood constantly, is upset...
...this patriotic spirit all Americans should begin training now for their own assaults on the Cup. The boys down Mass. Ave. with thick glasses are probably already working on their own secret keel and we at Harvard should take up the challenge. Those obnoxious people across the hall who summer on The Vineyard could be our greatest asset. Wouldn't it be great to drink champagne out of the hallowed Cup the way hockey players do with their ritual chalice...
...LIVE in Paris for months without noticing the local phenomenon, since women with male companions are left respect fully alone. Women who have had the temerity to try to travel as if they were ordinary people, like men, quickly grow thick-skinned. They commiserate in shorthand: "It's worse in Rome." "At least you're not blonde." They occasionally long for a male companion or a large styrofoam dummy of one. Guidebooks, including the one put out by Harvard Student Agencies, warn them in passing that it's hopeless to get mad at an entire culture. They are rarely...