Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...within the following seven minutes M.I.T. notched three scores to trail by only 8-4. With relative next ease, the Engineers tallied five of the next seven goals to pull within one of the Crimson, 10-9. Less than a minute later, Regan brought the ball in bounds and passed to Frisbee, who bounced in a goal from 15 yards...
...like gold nuggets, the .30-cal. machine gun ammunition belts handled like so many rare Grecian urns. Ihenacho, at 25 the youngest brigade commander in the Biafran army, supervised the process, his hands on the grip of a captured submachine gun. Then Ihenacho led the way up the trail leading to the village. The path was lined with civilians, young and old. "They help carry out the wounded," the colonel explained as he politely murmured greetings. "They are all volunteers...
...some formidable competition these days from fabled Negro Pitcher Leroy ("Satchel") Paige, 60, or thereabouts, and still in the game with the Atlanta Braves. In fact, as he listened to himself, Satchel thought he saw a whole new career. "Man, maybe I'll take to the lecture trail. When you're 6 feet 3½ inches and only weigh 180, you got to eat all that chicken and mashed potatoes so you'll be big enough to lift that heavy baseball...
Harvard--like every other school in the Ivy League except maybe Dartmouth and Cornell--has access to an exciting cultural life, which means that Harvard is within two hours of a museum and symphony orchestra. But there is more. Harvard has hippies, political "activists," Al Vellucci, the Freedom Trail, House sports, and things like HSA which is "a conglomeration of student-run agencies selling everything from hot dogs...to information on the college scene." The college scene info, I presume, is the HSA Student Calendar...
...sheriff, Percy was one of eight children. He went to work at the tender age of eight, tried everything from shining shoes to professional wrestling. During his years at the University of Texas Law School, he turned his natural talent for oratory into tuition fees by hitting the Chautauqua trail, lecturing widely on such subjects as "The High Mission of Women in the 20th Century" and "How to Get the Most Out of Life." After getting his law degree at the age of 25, he served briefly as an assistant county prosecutor before entering into private practice...