Word: climbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...article, entitled "How to Pass for a Harvard Student," paints for the budding social climber and Harvard sycophant a cliched portrait of fair Harvard designed to teach "Northeastern Freshmen and corporate V.P.'s" how to play Crimson...
...domineering father told him: "You have the mind but you have not the body." With the toothy snarl that was to become famous, the son replied: "I'll make my body." That he did for the rest of his life, absorbing punishment as a boxer, hunter, mountain climber and rancher. In Roosevelt's last year at Harvard, a physician warned him that he had overtaxed his heart and must lead a more sedentary life. Vowed Teddy: "Doctor, I'm going to do all the things you tell...
...longtime backpacker (not a climber). I believe that there are safe and responsible ways to use the wilderness. I feel that Mr. Yates' climb was neither of these and, moreover, that it might jeopardize access to wilderness areas...
Behind by five points, 60-55, with 1:37 remaining in the contest, the Harvard quintet, sparked by Fleming's outside jumpers and accurate free throw shooting, climber to within one at 60-59 with 1:25 still to show on the clock. The Bruins attempted to run the clock out, playing keep-away from the Crimson by dribbling in circles all over the court...
...then watches the benign sun become treacherous, turning glacier snow to sodden mush. His observations on climbing style might save a few bones: "Holding on to pitons is considered bad form but, as I see it, it beats falling." As a lagniappe, Bernstein answers the non-climber's classic question...