Word: tiddlywinker
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...Harvard Tiddlywinks Society meets up a few times a year to work the wink and test the tiddly. According to President Frank E. Pacheco `99, the Society lies "somewhere between a club and a team, and is in a continuous battle to find intercollegiate competition." It seems that few are up to the challenge, though, and the Society's games remain confined to intra-Harvard play. Pacheco says the club welcomes newcomers and is basically just a social game that's not very strenuous. The club organizes one tournament per year and insists on using only the finest imported English...
...subordinates off to battle: "That's my last word. Be professional, and let it all hang out." A few days later, problems have arisen, and he is less amiable. "By God," he says, "either you do it, or I'll find a job for you in the tiddlywink factory. I hope I've made myself clear. I ain't talkin' to hear my head rattle...
Most of the letters request a copy of the international rules or a match with the squoppers. The Green Bank, Va., Chess and Tiddlywink Society explained that they couldn't offer the visiting Harvard team room or board. However, these eighth graders would be glad to give them a tour of the naval radio observatory...
...Harvard tiddlywinkers had a new experience Saturday. They won. Encouraged by the spirited music of the Harvard band and by cries of "Squidge, Harvard, squidge" and "Hold that Squab," from a partisan audience, the Gargoyle Undergraduate Tiddlywink Society (GUTS) defeated a novice Holy Cross team by the convincing score...
...outcome was never in doubt as Harvard, strengthened by frequent "sherry breaks," placed first in all three matches, GUTS now considers itself champion of the National Undergraduate Tiddlywink Society (NUTS...