Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such insights help tide them over some of life's disappointments. Certainly the Crusades, which have consumed nearly 20 years of the pair's life when the film opens, were not all they should have been, and when the mad, majestic Richard Lionheart finally dies, Robin and Little John leave France with no regrets, riding north for England and Sherwood Forest. There, everything seems familiar. Robin and Little John come upon Friar Tuck and Will Scarlett, who are hunting deer in the forest. Now Richard's brother John is King, and their old adversary, the sheriff, still...
...spot. One of the rivers, Alex Vandervoort, a Harvard-educated nonconformist, is the good guy, and the other, Roscoe Heyward, a neurotic First Mercantile lifer, is the bad guy. Up until about page 275 Roscoe appears to have it sewed up, but then the tide begins to turn and by the end he has botched things so badly that he is forced to jump off the Headquarters Tower and leave Alex in triumphant, if dignified control...
...life that we'd all accepted as Yard freshmen. I realized that I hadn't known enough about the houses to judge which were best for me, that I'd been sold propaganda about the Quad's inferiority without questioning it, and that I'd been swept by a tide of peer pressure to completely ignore the Quad as a housing choice..It's a great place, although if I had lived at the River I would probably not have found that out. You can still socialize at the Square if you live hzre, but you have a retreat from...
Going into the final round the Crimson was still in command holding a 10-8 lead. But a Yale whitewash in saber turned the tide, and despite Simmons's third win of the day, and Hirschfeld's second, the handwriting was on the wall. The writing became even more legible when foiler Bennett was cut down by Ng. Major tied the match at 13 apiece, to set the stage for what one fencer termed "the best day in Danny Snyder's life." Snyder won the next bout 5-4 to give Yale the match...
...tides of fortune have been generous to Harvard's track team this year, as the squad pulled out last-event wins over Northeastern and Army and put it all together last week against Princeton. The tide turned, though, in Saturday's Heptagonal meet at Cornell, as the Crimson could manage only a second-place tie behind Penn's winning performance...