Word: finaling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard certainly looked unstoppable going into the final against Princeton. However, Princeton was also undefeated and was playing very well. The Tigers had beaten their opponents easily throughout the tournament and were gearing up for a tough final...
...Tigers took a 4-3 lead into the final two matches, but the Crimson refused to fold. Sophomore Mary Greenhill provided inspiration by thrashing her Tiger opponent...
...emotional game, sophomore slugger Carrie Cunningham then seized the victory, beating her opponent in the final game also by a score...
...pressure took its toll on the Quakers, as they missed 10 of 30 free-throw attempts, shooting only 4-for-8 in the final seven minutes...
...childhood. The youngest of three sons of a successful New York City thread manufacturer, Safire was just four years old -- and his brothers were teenagers -- when his father died of lung cancer, leaving the family not poor, but pinched. (Their name was Safir, but the columnist added a final vowel in the 1950s to make spelling match pronunciation.) "Those were tough times," says Leonard Safir, who recalls that his brother Bill "was bounced around a lot as a boy." According to Janklow, Safire's mother taught her sons "all you have in this world is blood and friendship...