Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three forms. One is the size of a newspaper page, inscribed with delicate characters. The second is roughly the size of a sheet of typewriter paper, with its message stenciled or printed for mass distribution. The third is the chuantan, or bill poster, each of which features a single, yard-high character. Enough pages strung together make poster headlines so large that even a simple acid message, such as "Liu Shao-chi is the Khrushchev of China," requires ten yards of wall space...
Then Harvard began to sweep the running events, destroying the hopes of Northeastern's strong cross-country veterans. The Crimson's David McKelvey flashed to a 1:12.7 in the 600-yard run, just .2 second off his Brigg's Cage record set the weekend before...
...yard event came down to a close finish, as the Crimson's Dick Howe almost caught Northeastern's Jim Castanza on the final lap. Both finished in 2:15.6, but the Huskie's man edged over to finish first. Another Huskie took third...
...whatever name, the goal is the same: to sneak out in the dead of night and shroud the victim's house from chimney pot to privet hedge with yard upon yard of toilet paper, preferably the tinted or floral varieties. The antic is performed by boys or girls, but always in pairs or a group. As Sue Simms, 18, a senior at Silver Spring, Md.'s Montgomery Blair High School, points out, "You need someone on the other side of the tree in order to fling the dwindling roll back and forth." And there are rules as well...
...Hagar (David's grandfather) had made it from Warsaw to Boston Light; Aaron had made it from Boston to Harvard Yard; in more than the journeyman's sense David would be expected to make it to the top of Beacon Hill...