Word: stellar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crest of a three-game winning streak. Third-year coach Rick Taylor has amassed a group of beefy boys, with the B.U. offensive line averaging well over 230 pounds a man. For Harvard, not known for its awesome size, the test of what has thus far proved a stellar Crimson defense should be crucial...
...illegal procedure penalty. The menacing yellow handkerchief would go on to be the most familiar performer of the game. Eleven of 16 penalties would go against Harvard. The mistakes would cost the Crimson 141 yards, a total that stymied the offense and did its best to deflate a stubbornly stellar defense...
Buckley has a marvelous arm. Big deal. He never was comfortable with the Multiflex, and he hadn't really proven himself to be a stellar signalcaller. Perhaps he would've been cozy this season, tossing 40 or 50 times a game for hundreds of yards and probably some touch-downs. Maybe. Then again, maybe...
...crowd in the chandelier-hung room at Monaco's elegant Winter Sporting Club was certainly stellar, stippled with the rich (Greek Shipowner Stavros Niarchos, London Merchandising Millionaire Sir Charles Clore), the royal (Britain's Princess Alexandra) and the pop (ex-Beatle Ringo Starr). But the real stunners were the prices being paid for the glittering collection of French antique furniture and objets d'art that were on the block in what Sotheby Parke Bernet hoped would be the auction of the year...
Considered by many as the greatest living mathematical astronomer, Chandrasekhar developed the theory of the dwarf star that explains the final stages of stellar evolution. Born in Lahore, India, in 1910, he became a U.S. citizen in 1953. His other research has included work in the dynamics of stellar systems, theory of stellar atmospheres, radiative transfer, hydrodynamics and hydromagnetic relativity. From 1952 to 1971, he acted as managing editor of Astrophysical Journal. Chandrasekhar received the 1966 National Medal of Science for his contribution to the study of cosmic dynamics. His books include Principles of Stellar Dynamics (1942) and Radioactive Transfer...