Word: tiding
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Despite the obvious difference in offensive emphasis--Dartmouth relies more heavily on the run than Harvard--both teams are remarkably similar in overall balance and defensive effectiveness. Once again, it may be Joe Restic's inventiveness that turns the tide of another big game...
...this year. The Red Sox and the Orioles were plagued with contract problems and never really got started. And the Royals might have won except for a bad call in the ninth inning of the last game. But for the sake of purity, the Reds must stem the unpure tide from the Bronx. I predict that the series will go no less than four game, nor more than seven. And the Reds are going to win most of the games...
...Dixie. Despite drives to sign up new voters, the registration totals, compared with 1972 figures, are expected to drop by well over 1 million people in New York and 600,000 in California. Said a Bostonian who has been trying to enroll voters: "It's shoveling against the tide...
...general consensus among Harvard's Sinologists is that China is moving into a period of continued experimentation. There won't be any new quotations from Mao Tse-tung to tide the country over rough patches, and those now wielding the well-worn aphorisms of the past may imbue them with distorted meanings. The most curious response to Mao's death may come from China's younger generation, which has never known another leader or system or experienced the turmoil and deprivation endured by Chinese in the era of imperialism and during the socialist revolutions--the same generation that, in other...
Game Fixture. The archetype of the Alabama fan-indeed of all football-seized Southerners-is Birmingham Hardware Distributor Tony Brandino, who never attended the university. Since 1954 he has made it to 239 Crimson Tide games in a row, traveling as far as California and forgoing, among other things, a free trip to Switzerland and the mourning period for his mother-in-law. Brandino recalls: "The first time I ever heard about football, I was nine years old and it was a radio broadcast of the 1925 Rose Bowl-Alabama v. Washington. I've been hooked since." Brandino...