Word: wets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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READING THIS BOOK is like walking in the dead leaves of an exotic and melancholy autumn. We turn up wet, brown mush, corpses, earthworms, faded brilliance and potential fertility. What we find is sometimes unrecognizable, as is the truth about Marquez' general. His past is buried under so many falsehoods of his own and others' making that all we know of him is the myth...
Cornell goalie and co-captain, Dan Mackesey, played a sharp game, as did Harvard goalie Herold, handling the wet ball with apparent ease...
Harvard received one more shot in the closing minutes of the half but, and this is getting to be monotonous, the rains proved to be too wet to handle. And as the half ended with Cornell leading 2-0, it was time to get serious...
Cornell did nothing but get wet on its next series, and then the impossible occurred. On fourth and five from his 25, Dave Johnson went back to punt, but the snap from center was high, so Johnson did the obvious. He took the football and slashed from 85 yards down the left sideline for a 9-3 Cornell lead with 5:13 remaining in the quarter...
...Union. Weary Freshmen looked up to see a large white sheet emblazoned with a pink "A+" unfurled from the balcony. A figure well over six feet tall in a white lab coat appeared, shed the coat, and dropped down to the floor of the Union dressed in a black wet suit with another pink "A+" painted on the chest. The man in the wet suit then ran throughout the Union distributing previously graded blue books. The grades were, of course, all A plusses. No one's seen "Captain A+" since...