Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Britain had never seen an election campaign quite like it. Looking and sounding like a confident winner, Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher last week made a whirlwind trip from one end of the island to the other that had many of the earmarks of a royal tour. She traveled in her own executive bus, which was followed by two others filled with dozens of journalists, ten television crews and a swarm of still photographers. It was election razzmatazz, American style, and Thatcher reveled...
...test comes now. Six games--a pair at Dartmouth Saturday, undefeated Division 3 powerhouse Brandeis next week, and the tough three-game road trip to Cornell and Army next weekend--that can make the season...
After the southern trip, the unbearable cold spell, the slump that overstayed its welcome, the doubleheader fiasco versus Columbia and the twin shellings of Larry Brown, these boys are finally peaking. The Harvard baseball team played superbly in its home finale yesterday, defeating Boston College, 7-6, in a game that really wasn't that close...
...clear, but it was far from the center of things, and its deafening bias against any news or newsmaker that might threaten the interests of the Chandlers or their land-holding friends had become a joke to outsiders. Humorist S.J. Perelman recalled stopping at Albuquerque during one train trip: "I asked the porter to get me a newspaper and unfortunately the poor man, hard of hearing, brought me the Los Angeles Times...
...innings and only six in the game. The big right-hander gave up only one earned run in the contest, as fielding errors in the sixth and ninth innings allowed Yale to spoil Clifford's shutout bid and give the hapless Elis something to show for their futile trip to Cambridge...