Word: triangular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result, a good deal of rewarding detail blurs into a June-moon landscape, an all-church-bells-and-wedding-bells kind of world. In spite of a triangular love story, there is not one tantrum; in spite of seven Trapp children, not one brat. Surely even an unexceptionable family show can be more fun: The Sound of Music ends by making its warmheartedness as cloying as a lollipop, as trying as a lisp...
...wasn't a losing season, but it might as well have been." Thus coach Bill McCurdy evaluated the 1959 cross country campaign, the worst in his long and successful reign. In dual and triangular meets, the varsity had a seemingly respectable 4-3 record, but the Crimson actually won only when a loss was inconceivable...
Only an archaic scoring quibble gave the varsity its victory over Princeton in a three-way meet with the Tigers and Yale. By triangular scoring, the Crimson finished third, with 48 points, against Princeton's 47 and Yale's 26. Traditionally, though, the contest is scored as three dual meets, although none of the conditions of a two-team clash prevails. In its head-to-head encounter with the Tigers, the Crimson could claim...
...first time in nine years, the varsity cross country team has lost to both Princeton and Yale. In yesterday's triangular meet at Princeton, the powerful Bulldogs took first with 26 points, and the Tigers upset the Crimson...
...mouthpiece, London's Daily Mirror, have long drawn strength from a common source: young people. The Labor Party grew to power with help from Britain's discontented, we-can-change-the-world young folk. The Daily Mirror (circ. 4,571,000), serving up a spicy blend of triangular love, bloody crimes, and pictures of young ladies in the near buff came to command the world's largest newspaper audience of readers under 35 years: some 1,500,000. But in recent months, the Mirror has begun to wonder if, so far as its youthful readers are concerned...