Word: violet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hardest blow to believe came in Tom Musliner's first match, when the Crimson swordsman's foil broke against the second-ranked Violet fencer. Given an unfamiliar sword to continue with, Musliner went on to lose the match, but came back later to beat the first and third-ranked New Yorkers...
Crimson sabre fencer Dave Redman all but wrapped it up for Harvard when he substituted in the final foil match and beat the top-ranking Violet fencer to give Harvard a 13-11 lead...
Gentle spring wind, velvety river bank, luscious ultra violet rays not-withstanding, it is once again Reading Period. For a strange three week interlude we live only in a doomed freedom that is the present. Some of us study 15 hours a day, some of us do nothing but play pool, some of us quietly lose our minds...
Muir, 61, is a carver who penetrates a forest of woods: hard black walnut, violet kingwood, satiny lignum vitae, reddish cocobolo, Pernambuco wood, mahogany, apple, redwood and familiar trees. Occasionally he also works with granite. Yet it is dried seed pods, withered blossoms, moss and lichens that give Muir his forms. "I am a scavenger and gatherer of all sorts of flora not thought much of by most people," he says...
Barnaby Conrad, author of Encyclopedia of Bullfighting, had flown down from San Francisco for the fight and dropped in to say hello, wearing a sweatshirt adorned with a picture of Manolete. At last, El Cordobés put on his sequined jacket of violet silk, and the blonde emerged from the bathroom, where she had been softly crying. He flipped her on the behind with a towel, and she smiled. Then someone shouted, "Ay, Matador!" and it was off to the Plaza in a roar of police motorcycles...