Word: showdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oarswomen anticipate next week's New Jersey showdown with cautious optimism. Last year, in conditions similar to this weekend's headwinds, the Crimson stayed even with the Tigers for 1000 meters before succumbing, as Strong said, to Princeton's superior technique...
Both sides face a showdown. City Councilor Mary Ellen Preusser, an opponent of rent control, says. "The challenge is to find some way to be fair to landlords and at the same time keep Cambridge a livable city." And, she might have added, to do it before election...
...Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, 78, and Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan, 71, had another showdown last week. Following days of equal-rights demonstrations by thousands of angry Iranian women and more secret trials that resulted in summary executions, Bazargan took to the air waves for an hourlong television and radio address that spared no one, least of all Khomeini, the acknowledged leader of the Iranian revolution. The Prime Minister denounced the secret trials as "unreligious and inhuman," charging that they made the new government appear "shameful" to the rest of the world. Describing his sessions in Qum with the Ayatullah, Bazargan said...
...semi-final showdown of the ECAC Division One hockey tournament, a fired-up and swarming fourth-ranked Dartmouth squad ousted number-one seed Boston University, 5-3, last night at the Boston Garden. Dartmouth earned the right to challenge number-two University of New Hampshire, which thumped Cornell in the first game, 5-2, for the ECAC championship...
...role in the potentially decisive 400-yd. freestyle relay (the meet's last event) may well be the key to the weekend for the Crimson. Even weak memories can't help but recall the showdown that Hackett barely lost to Princeton's Andy O'Hara in the last leg of that event exactly one year...