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...time to interrupt a previously announced night session on defense appropriations. Merely by chance, the Senate had adjourned early. Had the lawmakers lingered as late as expected, said Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, "undoubtedly there would have been grave injury and perhaps loss of life." Instead, the explosion tore Byrd's doors off their hinges, wrecked a portion of the Republican cloakroom near by and damaged valuable artwork, including oil portraits of the legendary Senators Webster, Clay and Calhoun. The cost of the destruction was estimated...
...drum major, Jennifer Roberts, attained her perch and promptly became the focus of a rain of snowballs. The Yalies, bent on protecting her, tore down screens from some of the dorms and protected her. They still think they won that...
Eestatic fans tore down the goal posts after Don Allard '83 led the Harvard football team to a Crimson series-high 45 points in The 99th Game last year at the Stadium. The 45-7 Harvard rout combined with Cornell's 31-0 shocker over Penn left the Crimson, the Quakers and the Big Green of Dartmouth in a three-way tie for the Ivy title...
Clasby remembers a pertinent 1952 incident. "I was running an end sweep and I cut sharply and tore the muscles in my back and cracked some ribs," he says. "I had lost all feeling in my legs and I just dropped down and lost the ball. The Yale captain put up his hands and kept all his team members away from...
...students tore out of school we lined up and tried to catch the 18-year-old vote. These kids came from all over the city. One white kid told me he would not vote for King. I asked him whom he was going to vote for. "Somebody white," he said...