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...just as the crowd of about 10,000 was getting a chance to unfurl their Harvard Hankies--the Crimson's answer to Pittsburgh's Terrible Towel--the William and Mary defense started doing its impression of the old Chrysler Corporation. First, Crimson quarterback Brian Buckley directed a 12-play, 60-yd. scoring drive late in the first quarter, highlighted by the ejection of a W and M defensive lineman for asking the referee to perform an impossible...
...contrast to Carter, Reagan can devote his full time over the next few weeks to preparing for the fall campaign. Bush relieved him of any remaining worries about this week's primaries and the July convention in Detroit by throwing in the towel on Memorial Day. After traveling 342,000 miles and spending $16.2 million in a two-year campaign, Bush had won less than 300 delegates; Reagan by some counts was already over the 998 needed to nominate...
Originally, when members of the Afro-American Executive Committee, formed by Dean Rosovsky to recruit scholars for the department, received the bad news, many felt ready to throw in the towel after months of hard work. Now,while waiting for Nathan I. Huggins, professor of History at Columbia University, to decide whether or not to accept their offer, committee members are beginning to bring out other alternatives and gear up for some more work...
THEY STICK OUT LIKE SNOWY laundry among the blue-suited bureaucrats and bums of Harvard Square. Irreverently called "towel heads," their children "washcloth heads," the Sikhs move transcendentally through The Square in their white clothes and turbans, bringing their Eastern mysticism to Cambridge's dark-brick, staid Puritanism...
...players began to file into the shower, and someone even yelled for a towel. It didn't seem fair, but then losers' dressing rooms never do. The key now is not to panic, but to get the experience needed to make this a team that can say "we did it" instead of "we played so well...