Word: ace
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more lopsided contests, Harvard's Hulbert and Harrison each devastated their opponents. The Crimson ace gave up only 19 points to Dartmouth's Kathy Hoes, and Harrison regained the top form that has been missing from her game recently, destroying Julie Lane...
Faced with the humbling task of challenging the nation's finest. Hulbert lost in three close games in the battle between number one freshmen heavyweights. Penn's McConnell used a perfected combination of quickness and raw power to keep the Crimson ace of balance and impress much of the gallery "She looks like a linebacket," one of the partixan crowd noted of the muscular McConnell...
Lovely irony. Like life. An infantry corporal with nine pieces of shrapnel in his back carried on the fight for three years, pressing, retreating, always recovering and trudging wearily ahead, overcoming protesting generals (Air Force Ace Robinson Risner) and multimillionaires (Ross Perot) and politicians (Congressman Phil Crane) and pundits (Columnist Pat Buchanan) and bureaucrats (Secretary of the Interior James Watt...
Paired against Yale's Zerline Goodman, a player who she had easily defeated earlier in the season, Harvard ace Mary Hulbert neededfive games Saturday to emerage with a stunning, come-from-behind victory...
Diebenkorn can be clumsy sometimes, and there is a direct link between the dumpy off-centeredness of some of his "ace" emblems and the awkward postures of sun-struck California figures in his paintings from 25 years ago. But that comes from consistency. Part of Diebenkorn's essential tone has always been the way his first pictorial impulses survive in the written-over manuscript of his work. His mastery of his own long-considered syntax has never led him to smooth out the quirks. Diebenkorn is a great stylist, and what gives life to style is a certain disequilibrium...