Word: robins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, with time running out in the second overtime, a cross from the Crimson's left wing Tadgh Sweeney pulled goalie Robin Parkman far out of position. Ekpebu, at center forward, got off a low, fast shot toward the empty nets, but Amherst fullback Drew Mallory sank to his knees in front of the goal and blocked the ball with his chest. By the time varsity inside Bruce Johnstone could follow up Ekpebu's shot, Parkman was in position to block the attempt...
...skimmed over the most important decade of Louis Prima's career, namely, the '40s. While disk-jockeying in wartime London and postwar Munich, I was swamped with letters from G.I.s and civilians with jaded musical appetites who asked for repeat after repeat of ''garlicky-dialogued" Robin Hood, Angelina, and the big hit of all, I'll Walk Alone...
...ROBIN DOUGLAS-Chicago
Hood had no formal training as a naval architect, but he had plenty of ideas about boats picked up on salt water when he set out to design Robin in 1955. Patterning her after the successful, wide-beamed Finisterre (designed by Olin Stephens), Hood made Robin wide and shallow so that much of her displacement was up near the waterline. He willingly accepted a penalty under the intricate-formula racing rules for hoisting an outsize sail. Then Hood gave Robin an extralong, 6 ft. daggerlike centerboard "with some shape...
...Hood expected, her wide beam and deep centerboard gives Robin solid stability while beating to windward, and her shallow underbody makes her fast off the wind. So effective is Hood's centerboard that there was talk around the fleet last week that other racers may soon be copying his design as well as buying his sails. That would still leave Robin with one indispensable feature: Ted Hood himself at the tiller...