Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mike Bassett threw a pass to Pat Young and we scored a touchdown. Everyone leaped up and cheered. I almost took someone's eye out with my umbrella; someone almost did the same to me. It was sort of like life, in a manner of speaking...
This week's continuous cold, inconvenient downpour depressed everyone in town except Cambridge's overjoyed umbrella salesman...
...Coop offers its drenched customers two models: the $3.98 version is a push-it-up-yourself model, and is recommended especially for those with athletic pretensions. The more popular $5.00 model requires only that the carrier exert enough energy to push a "release button." whereupon the umbrella flies open with astonishing rapidity, somewhat endangering the owner, umbrella, and by-standers...
...troubles of James McShane have made news before. In 1954, as a New York police detective, he was temporarily demoted for getting his picture in the papers holding an umbrella over the head of Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano (McShane was off duty at the time and Marciano was an old pal). McShane also had the misfortune, as chief marshal, of being assigned to bring the late spy Robert Soblen back to the U.S. from Israel; as the plane approached London, Soblen took advantage of McShane's momentary absence to stab himself (TIME, July...
Last year Watson missed by over 30 when an unusually large number of students on leave returned to avoid the draft. With the increase in call-ups following Berlin, he said, students flocked back to "get under the college umbrella...