Word: wabash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...checkered career of first year Princeton football coach Frank Navarro has taken him from the shores of the Harlem Fiver in New York City to the banks of the Wabash in Indiana...
...believed he had to spend too much time on publicity, paperwork and recruiting, which was hamstringing his coaching performance on the field. By mutual consent, Navarro left Columbia in 1973 and, passing up offers to become an assistant coach in the pro ranks, he became head coach of tiny Wabash College in Indiana...
...Abdulateef Habayeb Wabash...
Born in Hailey, Idaho, Oct. 30, 1885, Pound was a prodigy who at 15 entered the University of Pennsylvania "resolved that at 30 I would know more about poetry than any man living." After he was fired from an instructor's job at Wabash College when a prostitute was found in his rooms, Pound showed up in London at 23 wearing a piratical red beard, green felt trousers, pink jacket, hand-painted Japanese tie, huge sombrero, one turquoise earring, and pince...
David L. Evans is associate director of Harvard College admissions, assistant dean of freshmen, and academic tutor of Dudley House. He is black, and was born in Wabash, Ark., in the midst of the Depression and Jim Crow. His father, a sharecropper, died when David was 10 years old. His mother, a domestic, died when he was 16. Evans is successful because he has pushed, elbowed, and kept a stiff upper lip--but he has retained his humanity. Against all dictates of probability, he has been concerned enough to turn around and help others to push aside their own barricades...