Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson offense dominated play after that point, getting on the scoreboard for the first time on a try by Parker Wise. Wise's effort came after a fifty yard run by Jim Guest, the Harvard center three-quarter...
...have Gretel rebuilt for another try, but that came to nought (TIME, January 27) when a brand new Aussie challenger, Dame Pattie, convincingly trounced Gretel in a series of shakedown races off Sydney. Nothing would do then except to rebuild Gretel yet another time. Back she went to the yard, where, at a cost of $44,800, shipwrights stripped off all her double hull planking, altered every frame, shortened her keel and covered her again with single splined planks...
Grape ivy, (a number of species of the genus Cissus), though not a true ivy, is the type commonly found on Yard buildings. The psychedelic brew is prepared by taking a fistful of the bark strips, cleaning them and then sterilizing them in boiling water for ten minutes. The clean strips are left to soak for a day in about a half-gallon of cold water. After filtering, a teaspoonful of the water is claimed to send the drinker to a heaven of rich colors...
...Their Knees. Even so, more than a third of the American perimeter caved in, yielding yard by yard to Viet Cong pressure. Young troopers took reckless chances to fetch more bullets and grenades. Using his master sergeant as a sort of artillery spotter, Specialist Four Samuel Townsend, 21, a draftee and former high-school athlete from Detroit, pitched grenades with deadly accuracy at an enemy now less than 30 yds. away. In some spots the fighting was even closer. Private First Class Edward Edwards, 20, clubbed down one surprised Viet Cong with his rifle butt. SP4 Richard Hazel, 21, sprinting...
...clear that drugs are more accessible now in the Yard than they used to be. Marihuana has even be- come, a popular topic for dining room prattle. Things are out in the open, and the nature of drugs makes them nearly epidemic. There is a language that drug people speak. People don't want to be left out, especially freshmen, who are having a difficult time simply getting adjusted to Harvard...