Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...fierce smile and was bandying chit-chat with passing football players. At the same time, he worked on a runner's injured legs as he danced from one side of the table to the other. After we exchanged a few pleasantries and a few needles, he questioned my physical prowess and then challenged me to jog with him that evening...
...offices then to get seats for what everyone predicted would be a showdown for the Ivy League cellar. Now it appears that only seventh place is at stake since Brown made such an early-season rush for the coveted cellar, emblematic of a school which places scholarship over athletic prowess. Dartmouth, of course, has never finished last. There should be a lot of passing thanks to Poncho Micir, Don Jackson, and all the liquor in the stands, and when everyone finally gets to go home, the winner will be Columbia...
...with two homers, two doubles and five singles. Hitting safely in every game, he also tied several other Series batting marks: most hits (9), most hits in one game (4), most extra-base hits (4), and most total bases on extra-base hits (12). Yet for all his prowess at the plate, it was in the field that Robinson was most devastating. Time and again, just as the Reds began to get hot, Brooks stopped them cold with his brilliant glove work. Even so veteran a baseball man as Casey Stengel was awed. "He's the best third baseman...
...third is-Paco Perez!" So Anthony Quinn becomes the new president of the college, but even he can't deal with the truculent campus radicals. Ann-Margret is giving him a hard time on the home front, too, cooking lousy dinners, casting aspersions on his sexual prowess, and tossing out little zingers about his advancing age like "Flab is reality." Paco finally calls in the cops-to beat the radicals out of the building, and thus loses face and Ann-Margret, not necessarily in that order...
Suspense has never been a drawing card for Harvard's season opener. Those who go do it out of habit-perhaps even a vague sense of loyalty-rather than interest. The opponents, if you can call them that, are usually not known for their prowess... lucky if they are know at all. Three years ago, Harvard lined up lowly Lafayette and won, 51-0. Last year, Harvard took on Holy Cross a few days before the team came down with hepatitis and eked out a 13-0 victory...