Word: mismatched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard baseball team shivered to a two-touchdown victory over the Eagles yesterday, and the margin could have been greater. The 15-0. Greater Boston League mismatch was little more than a nine-inning endurance test...
Harvard-Colgate is the other first-round mismatch...
Could this classic mismatch have worked? Probably not. He was ungiving, and she was too taking. Tom seemed most content playing bridge, in bowler and brolly, with his wife's mother (Margaret Tyzack) and brother (David Haig). Viv imagined herself, with a mixture of impishness and foreboding, as the mistress of Dr. Crippen, the Edwardian wife murderer. Nice judgment, that: Viv is the picturesque victim slipping into madness, and Tom is the deadly St. Eliot, ( condemned because he took advantage of a sinner...
Gorgoni took full advantage of the mismatch, sprinting in virtually untouched and blocking Chapman's punt through the end zone for a two-point safety...
...scheming Ortrud and the hearty Danish bass Aage Haugland as King Henry the Fowler. Most notable of all, as Lohengrin, the mysterious knight of the Holy Grail, it featured Placido Domingo on one of his rare forays into the German repertoire. What looked at first like a mismatch turned out to be a gamble that paid off handsomely...