Word: chestnut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard women's volleyball team dropped a three-game match to the Red Raiders, after defeating Boston College in a pair of matches at Chestnut Hill on Saturday...
...encountered the corpses of horses everywhere. Poor horses, big defenseless animals that don't know how to hide. They stand motionless, waiting for death. It was always the corpses of horses -- black, bay, pied, chestnut -- lying upside down with the legs pointing into the air, their hooves admonishing the world. It was as if it were a war not between people but between horses, as if they were the only victims of the strife...
...Harvard softball team pulled off a big 4-2 second-game win yesterday at Chestnut Hill over the defending ECAC champions, Boston College, to avenge a 4-0 loss in the opener...
...outdone, two Reagan aides the next morning burst into the Oval Office dressed in a horse costume, the new gear in place. Reagan took one look, laughed heartily and, without missing a beat, turned to his mischievous chief of staff, Kenneth Duberstein, and hauled out the quintessential Reagan chestnut one more marvelous time...
THORNTON Wilder's high-school-theater chestnut about the bygone era of small-town America finds itself on the Harvard stage best suited to its unique, self-conscious theatricality...