Word: unsung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Russian race to the moon, man's most useful achievements in space have come as the result of an unsung project started in 1964: the U.S. Orbiting Geophysical Observatory series. Last week the fourth OGO satellite, launched from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on July 28, was buzzing along in polar orbit without a hitch...
Also at the banquet, senior Andy Cahners was awarded the William Nelson Unsung Hero trophy. Improvement awards went to a fleet of distance men, Jim Baker, Doug Hardin, and Spider McLoone. Other recipients of track silverware were Wayne Anderson. Dave McKelvey, Randy Thompson, Bill Jewett, Ron Wilson, Dick Benka, Frank Haggerty, and Steve Schoonover...
Friday's concert in the Kirkland House JCR was an example of the quiet, unsung side of Cambridge musical life. There couldn't have been more than 25 people in the audience; nevertheless, Joan Fuerstman (mezzosoprano), Patricia More head (oboe), and Philip More head (piano) provided an evening's entertainment that was totally enjoyable and had all the virtues that more ambitious musical efforts here often lack: modesty, musicality, and ingenuity...
Kentuckian Edgar Cayce was a semiliterate health evangelist who boasted miraculous curative and prophetic powers. He died at 67 in 1945, unsung except by a few equally obscure biographers. Freelance Author Jess Stearn has rediscovered Cayce, and strains mightily to prove that his batting average was close...
...Choquette, on the other hand, had to work his way up to greatness. He was not very successful his first two years because we kept shuffling him around the backfield. Finally I told him, 'You're our fullback -- that's where you belong.' He's been the team's unsung hero ever since...