Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bears a refulgent military name. His grandfather, who affected pink riding breeches and a scarf of white parachute silk for combat wear, was a World War II general described as a fighter who "out-Pattoned Patton." Author Truscott's father is also a career military man, a West Pointer. Truscott IV, 31, has found a complicated way to deal with the family tradition. He graduated from the Point with a resolutely undistinguished record in 1969, then resigned his commission 13 months later in a row with his superiors. Truscott became a journalist-largely for the Village Voice-and bent...
...course, that detailed narrative was not offered by either of us. Rather, the Pointer Sisters record, that profound ditty, managed to join us in the front seat of the car at least three times every hour with their boot-warming rendition of "Fire...
Unfortunately, the Harvard cagers proved as cold as the Cambridge thermometers, managing to hit only 35.4 per cent from the field in a 65-60 losing effort. The Pointer Sisters scored more often this afternoon on the radio...
Harvard number two man John Havens followed Desaulniers' act, ousting West Pointer Tracy Freeman 15-8, 15-8, 15-12. Although hampered by a sprained right arm, Havens played extremely well, taking command of the match early with a flurry of backhand drives and off-speed drop shots...
Indeed, Mike Lynch's last-minute field goal at the Yale Bowl in '75, a three-pointer which gave Harvard its first, last and only undisputed Ivy football title, seems the final link to a different age, one that never would have permitted Crimson losses to Columbia and Cornell within a month and would have been aghast at the thought that even a victory this afternoon can produce at best a fourth-place finish in the league...