Word: snagging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson and several other Ivy teams a favor when it knocked off previously undefeated Cornell, 23-15, last weekend. Had Cornell emerged from Providence victorious, it would have had an easy stroll to the league crown. As it stands, the Big Red still is in fine position to snag at least a share of the title...
...those teams, only Princeton (2-1 Ivy) and Yale (1-1) remain in position to snag the title. Dartmouth (0-2) and Columbia (0-4) are also-rans. Even this early...
Under the pressure of a federal court desegregation order, the Kansas City school district this month opened six foreign-language magnet schools. To attract white students into predominantly black areas, the district intended to offer intensive elementary school classes in French, Spanish and German. But the plan hit a snag when the Immigration and Naturalization Service refused to approve visas for the 14 Belgian instructors hired to teach French...
...landed the movie-reviewing spot a year later. Siskel, 41, majored in philosophy at Yale, became a reporter for the Tribune at 23 and the paper's film critic soon afterward. They have been aggressive rivals in print ever since, though the competition hit a snag last year when the Tribune removed Siskel as daily critic and relegated him to feature pieces and capsule reviews...
With a victory over a stumbling Yale squad, the Crimson would be in a position to snag its sixth Ivy crown in nine years against the Big Green. Dartmouth broke Harvard's string of five consecutive league championships when it bested the Crimson, 10-9, in Hanover, N.H., last year...