Word: warmers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What many of the northeastern coaches did not really remember is that all of the southern schools begin their seasons the first week of March. By the time the Harvard squad gets to warmer climates, all of those teams will have played as many as ten or twelve games. That is quite a contrast from the Harvard players who have only donned gloves and carried bats within the cozy confines of Briggs Cage...
...solidly-built portion of the city, with quaint two- and three-story pensions and humble eating places crowding the paved streets, along with small shops selling clothes, stationery and cheap appliances. Large churches open up on concrete plazas. Here the streets are less steep, and the air is noticeably warmer than it was at the top. The narrow streets then give way to broad tree-lined avenues wrapped in the shadows of the towering hotels, banks, and office buildings built by the money of foreign companies and wealthy local businessmen. Further on still, this district merges into the posh suburbs...
...worked as a barber at $15 a week while Sirica's mother ran a grocery store, and the family (including John's brother Andrew) lived in a single room at the back. Afflicted with a tubercular cough, the father was warned by his doctor to seek a warmer climate, setting the Siricas off on a gypsy existence that took them to Ohio, Florida, Louisiana, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and California. "It was an uphill fight against poverty, poverty, poverty," Sirica recalls...
Jaworski and Cox could hardly be more different in personal styles. A proper Bostonian, Cox, 61, is reserved, with flashes of arrogance; Jaworski, 68, is an expansive Texan, much warmer and more approachable. Jaworski soon showed that he is as devoted to hard work as Cox, plunging into long meetings with lawyers and investigators, obviously anxious to dispel any suspicions that he had taken the job to call off the hounds. "Press on," Jaworski said repeatedly. "Make your own judgments...
...Warmer and Warmer. What would happen if man ever interfered drastically with this process? Meteorologist Francis K. Davis, who is dean of Drexel University's College of Science in Philadelphia, warns of some frightening consequences. Unable to shake off their heat, he says, the tropics might become warmer and warmer. Simultaneously, the polar regions would slowly become colder. Eventually, both areas would expand, relentlessly shrinking the thickly populated temperate zones between them...