Word: warden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie is set in Montreal from the late 1940s onward into the first pale years of the '50s. Buddy's father (Jack Warden) is a taxi driver. His brother is a pre-med student practically numb with the wish to be a WASP, to let the Jewishness drain out of him and get a life-supporting transfusion of blue blood. Buddy, just out of high school, works in a summer resort, tries running a roulette game on the sly, is hoodwinked into smuggling heroin for a fat-fingered hood, concocts on his own all sorts of wild-eyed...
...Iain Ross, a white British citizen born in Uganda, began turning his job over to a black man. For six years Ross had been chief warden of the Kidepo Valley National Park, 500 sq. mi. of wilderness near the border of Sudan and Kenya. Animals roam free there under park protection, but are in danger from poachers. Outside the park, a conflict splutters and periodically burns between Uganda and Tanzania, like the brushfires that menace the park itself...
...McMahon, who played a great game, had the hat trick in the losing cause. His first came at 6:26 of the opening stanza after he stole the puck from Steele and beat Tech goalie Jim Warden. McMahon picked up his second at 8:21 on the power play...
Harvard made it extremely tough for the Huskies, with a strong stanza in which Warden had to stop 23 shots and Murray had only to save six. Warden was the difference, as he held fast in the nets after Jimmy Thomas had put the Crimson out in front...
Cleary's kids had their chances near the end of the period with a two-man advantage for a full minute and a man-advantage for a minute after that. But the power play was cautious and the puck just would not pass Warden. The stage was set for Steele...