Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prince also had villainous intrigues, swashbuckling swordplay, brawls on bridges and effective vignettes of a dark, cruel 16th century England, e.g., a weepy woman waiting in a cell to hang for stealing a yard of yarn; a bandaged old man who lost his ears for criticizing the Lord Chancellor; and the prince's whipping boy, hardly bigger than the Great Seal used by the pauper to crack nuts in the palace. But the play's most memorable image was its gentlest: a lovely little girl (Patty Duke, 8) finding the tattered prince-by then the king-asleep...
Three touchdowns by right half Bruce Johnson, one on a 70-yard run, sparked the Dunster triumph. Charles Hooker registered the only Kirkland tally on a line plunge...
...words and symbols might have helped the Advocate more than the Lampoon. Brust's unhappy tale of the decadent South will manage to offend all of Harvard's geographical distribution who chance to read it. And Hawkins' pilgrimage through the bargain basement universe will confirm Bostonian suspicions that Harvard Yard should be a separate state...
Steiner scampered loose on a ten yard run early in the first quarter to put Eliot ahead. The score remained 6-0 until the second half, when Steiner again burst free on a fifty yard jaunt in the third quarter and on a 60 yard sprint in the fourth period...
Dudley threatened several times by penetrating inside Eliot's twenty yard line, but never managed to score. The Elephant defense held firm on their eight to withstand Dudley's deepest effort...