Word: archness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What's important to remember is that when we last saw Luke, Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew), C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) and R2-D2 (Kenny Baker), they were celebrating their destruction of the Empire's ominous Death Star, oblivious to the escape of arch-nogoodnik Darth Vader (David Prowse...
When it all came together, the end-product excelled--Dave Connors pokes in an overtime goal for a stunning 4-3 roack win over arch-rival B.U.; outstanding performances in the net by Wade Lau lead the way to satisfying wins over the defending ECAC champion University of New Hampshire Wildcats (4-1) and the championship-bound Big Red of Cornell (5-3); freshman defenseman and point-man missile launcher Mark Fusco (13 goals, 16 assists) captured rookie-of-the-year honors while fellow first-year man Greg Olson led the team with 16 goals...
...That decision almost saved the election for Humphrey. Muskie emerged as the star of the campaign because of his Lincolnesque calm and restraint. In 1972 he was considered the Democratic front runner, but he stumbled fatally while campaigning for the New Hampshire primary. Outraged by a charge in the arch-conservative Manchester, N.H., Union Leader that his wife Jane had a penchant for cocktails, Muskie stood in front of the newspaper office in a snowstorm to denounce Publisher William Loeb: "That man doesn't walk, he crawls." The Senator choked up and tears rolled down his cheeks. He claimed...
Steadfastly refusing to treat with Mandela, whom he calls an "arch-Marxist," South Africa's Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha nonetheless began advising his countrymen to "adapt or die" even before Mugabe's landslide victory. He endorsed certain racial reforms in the labor field and began pushing for a constitutional revision that would give nonwhites some limited political voice. But such gestures fall far short of black demands, and Botha is reluctant to press for more substantial changes in the face of strong opposition from his National Party's right wing...
...hand, Harvard established itself as the king of Eastern swimming by outscoring arch-rival Princeton, 30-18, in what amounted to the rubber match of their season series. Bobby Hackett led the Crimson with a fifth place finish in the 500 freestyle the first evening, followed by a seventh place swim in the 200 freestyle and a gutsy third place 1650 finish on the second and third nights, respectively. The only other Crimson point was scored by Larry Countryman in the marathon...