Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other Dartmouth captain, Rich Weissman, was out of uniform today. The senior tailback, who was expected to lead the Big Green rushing attack this year, was injured against Holy Cross two weeks ago and hasn't been able to play since...
...Ronald W. Reagan awards--first place, for pushing Mom, Apple Pie and Flag in a Harvard Context, to a Currier House hopeful who is running on the motto. "For Skill, For Experience, For Currier." Second place, for pushing Our Boys In Uniform in a Harvard Context, to the Leverett House candidate whose face fills in for Uncle Sam in a remake of the famous World War II "I Want You" recruiting poster. This candidate also snags the Richard M. Nixon Zealous Reelection Campaign Effort Award. His poster, according to a note on the bottom, is "paid for by the Leverett...
Nothing against Kansas City or San Diego, but a Detroit-Chicago World Series would have a particular charm. Nostalgia has won the day, and Ernie Banks has been called back into an honorary uniform. When those less-than-great wartime teams met in 1945, Paul ("Dizzy") Trout was a righthanded pitcher for the Tigers. Now Dizzy's son Steve ("Rainbow") Trout is a lefthanded pitcher for the Cubs. In both the baseball and trout worlds, this is a year of complete reversals. -ByTomCallahan
...words about editing. Terkel shapes his interviews into a uniform style: terse sentences that focus attention on what is said rather than how. One could quibble that this is not authentic oral history, but it works. Passion and pride not only survive intact, they are strengthened. Douglas MacArthur may have had it backward: old soldiers do die, but they do not fade away...
...jarring sight of an old athlete in a new uniform is common, though these images fade with such dispatch that the players are wise not to do the same. No one pictures Babe Ruth, Johnny Unitas and Bob Cousy as a Boston Brave, a San Diego Charger and a Cincinnati Royal. Joe Namath's farewell passes wobbled not in the cause of the New York Jets but on behalf of the Los Angeles Rams. The sweeping fullback of the Green Bay Packers, Jim Taylor, was swept out with the New Orleans Saints...