Word: skate
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Cavanagh, Harvard's captain and leading scorer, was knocked out of the game late in the first period, after being hit in the mouth with a Brown skate. "Two or three guys hit me at once," Cavanagh said. "I saw them coming, but I fell down. I don't think they did it on purpose...
...wise military move. As it is, says one Western military analyst, the Cambodian army's desperate holding action resembles "a skater gliding over a lake of rotten ice. No matter how fast he tries, the ice keeps breaking up, and pretty soon there is nowhere left to skate...
When he started skating 12 years ago, he wasn't thinking about the Olympics in Japan. "Skating was something novel to me then that I wanted to try out. Oh, I did skate once when I was two years old-I had so much energy that my parents decided that they'd better find some way for me to get rid of it. But I caught bronchitis, and didn't skate again until I was eight," he said...
...During the next few years, I made friends rapidly and really liked the kids I met skating. When I was 14 somebody told me that I could skate reasonably well, so I took it up seriously...
After the 1972 Olympies and graduation. Petkevich plans to give up competitive skating and enter medical school. "I really have no desire to skate professionally like Peggy [Fleming] is doing now. I would probably only do that for two years or so, and instead I want to adequate a skill that will be with me the rest of my life." he said...