Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Mary Cist and the Harvard women's squash team confirmed once again that oldest and wisest of sports axioms. Down, 14-11, in the fifth set, Cist kept battling back--and kept repeating one phrase over and over...
Yogi Berra would have been proud, but Cist was exhausted. She first tied her opponent Anne McGowan, 14-14, but Cist's comeback wasn't finished. She then battled from a 2-1 deficit in a sudden-death set three to take the match and pace Harvard to a 5-4 upset victory over Princeton yesterday at Hemenway...
Even if one should set aside the issue of Jackson's supine moral character, the most positive word one could find to describe a Democratic Party electoral strategy in which Jackson and his program figured prominently would be: suicidal. Erroneously, Kayyem remarks that the Democrats lost the 1988 election because they failed to differentiate themselves from the Republican Party by endorsing Jackson's agenda. In truth, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis was routed at the polls despite the daring of his "I am a liberal" acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. Dukakis certainly tried to differentiate his party from...
...this meet will be a good start," Harvard freestyler Stacie Duncan said. "The first two relays, especially the 200-yard medley, will set the tone for the rest of the day. If we can get on a roll, the rest should fall into place...
...months progressed, I realized that Wilson had set a course for Radcliffe that would not easily be altered by the opinions of undergraduate women...