Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large crowd, his reflexes scattered and every play was botched. Along the way, the players came to like him and confide in him, partly because he took their skills as seriously as they did. Their descriptions of the intricacies of the various positions and their special moments of triumph are as authentic as only shoptalk can be. Said a player of the awesome Night Train Lane: "He's got pipes for legs, all bone, with just strings of muscle holding him together." Once, after being tackled, Y. A. Tittle "got off the ground and reeled back to the huddle...
Lives sometimes focus not on a major triumph, but on a major disappointment. Raymond Moley, now 80, has chosen to linger in a departed yesterday that let him down...
...such rapidity that it seemed that each new stage ignited before the previous one had burned out. No sooner had Director Rorimer read Hoving's graduate paper on Rome's Farnese gallery in 1959 than he hired him as a curatorial assistant to the Metropolitan. In a triumph of scholarship and taste, he personally deduced the origin of the rare Bury Saint Edmunds cross (TIME, June 19, 1964), purchased by the Met for $500,000. The young art historian rose to become curator of the Cloisters, the Met's medieval annex and Rorimer's former bailiwick...
Though in both cases it required overtime goals, Cornell has also defeated Clarkson and the defending NCAA champion, Michigan State, by 3-2 scores. In its opener, the Big Red topped Yale, 5-3. Of these wins, only the triumph over the Larries, who later edged the Crimson, 3-2, was recorded on home...
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