Word: tucks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They rowed an extremely intelligent and sophisticated race," an ebullient John Baker said of his Radcliffe squad after the contest. "We were nip and tuck with Williams the first half, but we didn't break under the pressure of a close race and moved out steadily in the last 500," the coach added...
...more important, never inflated him. In short, says Solti's American Manager Ann Colbert, "Valerie took him off the pedestal." The aura of happy domesticity sits well on Solti these days. He has even been known to end an evening's rehearsal early to go home and tuck his first child. Daughter Gabrielle, now 3, into...
...size," who is reminiscent of the one Bill Veeck fielded with the 1951 St. Louis Browns; and an ancient third baseman who naps between innings. There is also a one-armed right fielder who, unlike the Browns' Pete Gray, does not even have a stump under which to tuck his glove while throwing the ball. He puts the ball in his mouth while removing his glove. If it gets stuck there, the result can be as costly as "an inside-the-mouth grand-slam home...
...preceding races had been nip and tuck and the stage was set for, the varsity race by Princeton's even narrower victory over the Crimson J.V. Harvard's second boat stayed even with the Tigers off the line and up to the 1000 meter mark where the Crimson took a power 20 and moved out on Princeton by two seats...
...same as hiring former CIA agents to break into a party headquarters and install eavesdropping equipment. Nor is it the same as amassing a huge fund to finance political spying and disruption. Somewhere in the whole furtive, earnest enterprise, the fun of political prankstering disappeared. Bring back Dick Tuck...