Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Getman made a line-up adjustment--moving two-year sweeper Nick Gates into center midfield and putting newcomer Cochrane in the sweeper spot--and it gave the Crimson exactly what it needed. An attacker in back and an anchor in the middle...
Unfortunately, Baverstock's season is already finished, and Harvard must somehow fill the void left by the loss of the anchor of its midfield...
While Baverstock was supposed to be the anchor in the midfield, junior Nick Gates was supposed to be the glue that held the backfield together...
...wheel steamer, Fenella, took aboard 600 soldiers, then was hit by a bomb. Most of the survivors were evacuated onto another paddle steamer, Crested Eagle, but a dive bomber set it afire, and most of the men aboard perished. A hospital ship marked with large red crosses rode at anchor off the beach all one day until a bomb went down its funnel and scattered bodies all over the harbor...
...anchor with Kuralt and later Bill Kurtis, Sawyer helped boost the ratings for the No. 3-ranked morning show to their highest levels ever. Colleagues were impressed by her dedication. "She would show up at 2 o'clock in the morning and write her own copy," recalls a producer. "This was unheard of. There was no way you could not respect her." But she soon grew dissatisfied with the low priority the Morning News was given at the network and with the trivia she was sometimes forced to handle. "I thought this is not really what I should be doing...