Word: arena
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson icemen have two things for which to be thankful for this morning. One, they escaped from the Boston Arena with a three-goals-in-the-last-three-minutes, 4-2 triumph over Northeastern, and two, they escaped, period...
Rumor had it that the Arena was no place to stage hockey games, but the rumor was wrong, because the Arena is no place to have anything with the exception of reunion parties for the Addams (as in Mortisha and Lerch) family...
...word, it's the pits, which also happens to describe what the Crimson must have felt like for the first 57 minutes of the hockey game. But Harvard recovered in time. The Arena, however, is beyond the point of recovery...
...Geisel jetted through 16 of Brazil's 21 states, kissing babies, cutting ribbons and shaking every hand in sight like any vote-hungry candidate. Along the way, he invested much of his personal prestige on behalf of local candidates of the government's National Renewal Alliance (ARENA). By allowing them to bask in the presidential aura, Geisel transformed the municipal elections into a plebiscite on the Brazilian military's twelve-year-old "revolution" and its faltering economic "miracle." As the votes of 40 million citizens were tabulated last week, both ARENA and its opposition, the Brazilian Democratic...
Geisel had apparently won his gamble for a mandate-namely, a majority vote for ARENA candidates-but not by the margin he sought. As Columnist Carlos Castello Branco wrote in Jornal do Brasil, "This is a victory with the flavor of defeat." As expected, ARENA candidates won in Brazil's rural backlands, but MDB swept five of Brazil's largest cities by substantial margins...