Word: shocker
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Waller's remarks. "Absolutely imbecilic," said another. Soldiers are not supposed to tell such secrets to the enemy. In truth, what Waller said should come as no surprise to anyone who has been tracking the progress of American deployment in the gulf. That he said it, however, was a shocker. Waller's indiscretion signaled to Saddam that the Rubicon may not be crossed on Jan. 15, thereby undercutting Washington's effort to scare him out of Kuwait without a fight...
...Saturday, those leased horses played like thoroughbreds in the men's shocker over Yale...
...Silber Shocker...
First came the score from Ithaca, N.Y., where the Big Green had utilized three Dean Durkin field goals to take an 11-6 decision from the undefeated Cornell Big Red. Then the shocker, a late touchdown gave Brown a 24-17 decision over also-undefeated Penn in Providence. And finally, the expected Yale blowout over Columbia, 31-7, produced the logjam at the top of the league standings. Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn and Yale all lie at 2-1 with four games remaining to be played...
Rainey, junior Suzanne Jones and sophomore Catherine Griffin were the headline names in the indoor track team's Heps title. The women's swimming team finished just for points off the pace at Easterns and the women's basketball team finished its season with a one-point shocker at Briggs Cage over Ivy champion Dartmouth on a buzzer-beating layup by Jody Fink...