Word: units
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blank verse. His chief experiments in Thank You, Fog are with verbs. Poets who write in English, he tells us in one of his "Shorts," "can very easily turn nouns, if we wish, into verbs." He proceeds to do so with gusto, not only to nouns but almost every unit of syntax he can get his hands on. Some examples from a single new poem, "Archeology:" "vacancied long ago," "man...has always graved his dead," "what disastered a city," "though gluttoned on sex/And blanded by flattery," "not that all rites should be equally fonded...
...Dartmouth defense is a tough, poised unit, with on glaring weaknesses. The linebacking corps is the best in the Ivies, and should shut off plays of the sort that Tom Winn scored on against Cornell last week...
...offensive unit breaks from the huddle and lines up in formation. A small fleeting back takes the pitchout and races around the end, breaks from the clutches of one tackler, cuts back across the field with mercurial strides and finally blazes down the opposite sideline eluding all pursuit to go in for the score...
Harvard's courageous running will be severely tested by the Big Red. Cornell has a 2-1 record with triumphs over Colgate and Army sandwiching its only loss to a powerful Syracuse unit...
...playing conditions inevitably handicapped a skillful ball handling unit like UConn but as Crimson mentor George Ford said, "You have to adjust your skills to the conditions...