Word: wick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trey Burns, University record-holder in the 1000, is favorite in that event, but Princeton's Terry O'Keeffe Brown's Jim Wick are only a step behind. O'Keeffe Burns both posted 2:10.4 clockings, but the Harvard sophomore won by a yard in the Big Three meet...
...Franquemont used his cobra-fast takedown at will to smash Yale's Art Hayward 11-2, and Paul Padlak took a 5-1 decision over Fred Southwick at 160. Dave Worcester made it seven straight for Harvard by blanking Chris Wick...
Yale's Ken Haltenhoff, trailing Dave Worcester 3-2 in the third period of their 157-pound match, took Worcester down and scored a pair of predicaments for an 8-3 decision. Agonizing the scorekeepers, Chris Wickens of Harvard defeated Chris Wick of Yale 5-2 at 167 pounds...
Some hoodlums lobbed Molotov cocktails into the battalions of pursuing police. An organization called "Harlem Freedom Fighters" had helpfully issued a crude flier: "How to Make a Molotov Cocktail. Instructions: Any Empty Bottle, Fill With Gasoline, Use Rag as Wick, Light Rag, TOSS AND SEE THEM...
...much harder to get to sleep, and to stay asleep, than it was in the old days." There is indeed much more to stay awake for. Electricity makes it possible to read through half the night without straining the eyes and without getting up to trim a wick. The same electricity brings in round-the-clock radio programs, while TV competes to make the late show later...