Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brown's Harvard athletic career began subtly enough on the freshman football team. "I was about eighth string quarterback and played maybe four plays all year...
Harvard suffered a major setback in January when the Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) handed down a ruling prohibiting installation of the facility's diesel generators because of possible air pollution problems. The University has, however, enjoyed a string of recent victories in the courts. In addition, construction is now 50-to-60 per cent complete--and that disturbs many power plant opponents who believe that the further Harvard progresses with construction, the harder it will be to ultimately stop the plant from going into operation...
...noon the two sets of ballots, skewered on a long needle and string like a kind of combined ecclesiastical shishkebab and necklace, were thrust into the chapel stove along with black chemical lares to send up a dark "no Pope" signal to the waiting crowds in St. Peter's Square. But the flue above the stove was broken, and black smoke seeped through the chapel, partially obscuring Michelangelo's famous frescoes. For a quarter of an hour, the assembled Cardinals coughed, covered their mouths and rubbed their eyes until two windows were opened to clear...
...Algonquin Round Table, for example, could have given him wide recognition. Instead, he used its worst aspects: sincere feelings were despised, hard work was derided, and sobriety was practically outlawed. Mank, a promising second-string drama critic on the New York Times, became a full-time lush...
...discouraged, though. As a freshman, Larry Brown failed to earn the starting QB job on the frosh team. As a soph, he played fourth-string on the varsity. As a junior, Brownie got a break when the starting quarterback suffered a neck injury in the season opener, and went on to lead the Ivy League in passing and total offense. As a senior, Brown finds himself listed alongside the likes of Penn State's Chuck Fusina and B.C.'s Fred Smerlas in this month's Playboy as one of the top players in the East...