Word: toe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard wrestling team moved one step closer to its long-awaited Ivy League title with a 35-12 thrashing of visiting Pennsylvania at the IAB Saturday. This victory, combined with the Crimson's defeat of Princeton Friday--its first triumph over that New Jersey toe in 15 years--set up this weekend's showdowns with Cornell and Columbia on the road. In addition, a 40-4 destruction of Boston College raised the squad's season record...
...Million Dollar Quartet (Sun) In December 1956, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash did a little casual singing in a Memphis studio. Perkins is hardly discernible; Cash can't really be heard; but Elvis and Jerry Lee go toe to toe on a little R&B and a lot of gospel. It's like going to chapel inside a Seeburg...
...FAVORITE BOK, Derek Curtis that is, We'll hire Bart Giamatti's charisma whiz. Henry Rosovsky, that creator of Cores, will find in his stocking nothing that bores. There in the toe, slightly out of control, What could it be? Why it's Theda Skocpol! We can't bear to fulfill the wish of Dean Epps, That nary a protest will grace Widener's steps; And as for Dean Fox, we have this prescription, Someone should write him a real job description; Imprudent maybe, but nonetheless fair, Regarding Dan Steiner we must clear the air, And let the rest...
While such connections lend themselves well to personal sketches and amusing little stories, they create problems for Nichols in writing the sort of meaningful criticism to which he apparently aspires. He seems at times so busy avoiding stepping on any toes that he has trouble standing in one place very long, for fear that some official toe might appear underfoot...
Says he: "There are enough strains on you here already." Indeed, V.M.I, students are still expected to toe the traditional rat line, a punishingly rigid code of behavior made famous by the 1938 movie Brother Rat (featuring Ronald Reagan). The Citadel has only slightly eased its own version of the code. At meals, for example, freshmen, or "knobs," are no longer required to sit at attention and request each helping from an upperclassman...