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...JERED WEAVER...
...spiders together. In 1943, as an infantryman in New Guinea, he was reconnoitring in the jungle when he ran smack into a web and felt "this huge spider" scuttle onto him. A mate brushed it from his hair, but Wallace couldn't get the spider, a golden orb weaver, out of his head. "It was the size of it," he says. "And its silk was so strong...
...Forgotten for decades, the Brownsville affair got a fresh airing in 1972 with the publication of The Brownsville Raid by John Weaver, which revealed how even the telltale shell casings were probably planted on the streets as part of a frame-up. On Sept. 28, 1972, the Army announced that the soldiers would finally be granted an honorable discharge. Only one was still alive by then. Dorsie Willis, a former private, had spent some 60 years shining shoes in a Minneapolis bank building. When the arthritic 88-year-old received $25,000 in back pay in 1974, he told reporters...
...result of the departures, Stone was left with three seniors—Raimondi, Boe, and captain Carrie Schroyer—to lead an inexperienced squad that included eight freshmen—many of whom logged significant minutes. The youthful unit had its inadequacies, particularly defensive stability (junior Lindsey Weaver was the lone blueliner returning with two letters under her belt), exposed by more seasoned squads in late 2005, losing to Clarkson and tying St. Lawrence (on a Solley score with six seconds left) at the Bright Center and falling to Yale and Minnesota-Duluth twice on the road. The autumn...
...solid defense in front of its goaltender and cleared the puck out of the zone. With Boe playing well in net, the Crimson only needed one goal for the victory, scoring the eventual game-winner just 6:36 into the opening frame. Receiving the puck from junior blueliner Lindsay Weaver, Sifers fired a shot from the right circle. Though Golden Knights netminder Kira Hurley made the initial save, the puck slowly trickled between her pads and across the line to give the Crimson the 1-0 lead. Harvard had several chances to extend its lead in the remainder...