Word: five
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Harvard, however, could manage only five singles off Penn starter Craig Connolly, who did not yield a walk while striking out nine en route to a complete game shutout...
Above all, everyone seemed to doubt that a team that lost by five goals to Brown could pose a strong challenge for an Ivy title. Especially since the Bruins had lost their previous two Ivy contests to Princeton and Yale--the next two opponents on the Crimson's league schedule...
...Because of the tradition behind the Harvard-Yale competition, it is always one of the most important meets for the team," said sprinter Derrick Horner, who copped top honors for the men by winning four of his five events...
...Twenty-five years ago this month, Harvard said no. So did Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Columbia and Williams. I can still see my 18-year-old self standing by the mailbox in stunned disbelief, holding six white envelopes. Six anorexically thin white envelopes. The precise wording of the form letters has been lost to history, but I can still conjure up their face-saving phrases like "many strong candidates" and "very difficult decisions." Reading them one right after another, it seemed like an Ivy League chorus was cheerfully wishing me "the best of luck with your college career." Best of luck...
...them as I can." Yet Quayle was not raised among people who shied from extremes. He is the coeval of the cold war: the year of his birth, 1947, also gave us the CIA, the Attorney General's list of subversives and the internal-security program. When Quayle was five years old, Dwight Eisenhower carried Indiana with the help of Quayle's grandfather, publisher Eugene Pulliam, and William Jenner, who were, respectively, the right and the far right of the state Republican Party. When the John Birch Society was set up in 1958 with the thesis that Eisenhower had collaborated...