Word: balliol
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Your boys are bigger, but we've had much better training." Balliol's Tim Cumming said after the game. "Most of us started playing rugby when we were nine or 10 years...
...Balliol team overpowered Harvard in almost every scrum by giving them ground and then pushing them back when they got off balance. "They didn't put any pressure on us at first," said freshman Hassan Raffat. "It was like pushing on jello...
Born in Mottingham and educated at Oxford's Balliol College, where he took a double first in classics and philosophy, Healey served as Defense Secretary (1964-70) and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1974-79). His bushy eyebrows, imposing girth and bare knuckle style make him a favorite target of cartoonists, who sometimes turn his teeth into fangs. "There's a Jekyll and Hyde aspect to him," says Tory Home Secretary William Whitelaw, using the caricaturists' horror-show imagery. "You sometimes get the impression that once Denis decides what is good for Britain and his party, he pursues...