Word: wayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everything was going according to plan, with Murphy and Adam Dixon showing the way and the rest of the Herd following not far from the front, as they came over a slight rise and crossed over the bridge that led into the hilly second mile, disappearing from sight...
During that difficult half-mile the race got completely out of hand, with the Harvard contingent dropping way back, and right out of competition; Dixon dropped out of the race literally with a sprained ankle. From that point on it was reduced to a two-team battle between Penn and Columbia...
This week, however, the elephant lumbered forward, when an official from the state Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) suggested that MATEP be allowed to install the diesel engines it needs to produce energy. Way back in January 1978, another DEQE official said "no" to the diesels, and community groups--which fear the power plant may send clouds of noxious nitrogen dioxide into their homes--let out a resounding cheer...
Said stalk is the cynosure of his existence--he refers to it every three pages, usually by way of some juvenile periphrasis: "doughty love-muscle," or "priapism," or "stallionoid condition." "My membrum," he writes, "betrousered, is truly rampant." Stingo gets drunk on two beers, runs from any sort of danger or disturbance, ejaculates prematurely--he is, in short, what the Jews he loves to stereotype would call a nebbish, the kind of person who, when he enters a room, gives the impression that seven people just left...
Some of this past glory now may be on its way back to Harvard. Crimson sailors already have qualified for this year's New England Sloop Championships by placing first in the elimination rounds two weeks ago. The team, skippered by Art Rousmaniere and crewed by Steve Strittmatter, George Bratt and Caris' Field, is favored to win the New Englands, a victory that would earn the boat a berth in the National Championships...