Word: bayou
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard women's team defeated Northeasternduring the indoor season, and hopes for a repeatvictory in today's match-up. The Crimson's strongshowing in the Bayou Classic last week is proofthat the team has a competitive edge...
Sophomore Meredith Rainey took second in the400 meters over spring break, and continues to bea major contributor to the women's team. RomneyResney, who won the 10,000 meters, is sure to giveNortheastern a run for its money. Co-CaptainChristine Lount, runner-up in the 5,000 meters atthe Bayou Classic, is also expected to fare wellin today's meet...
...framers of the Bill of Rights surely had loftier disputes in mind. But last week a federal judge in Denver invoked the First Amendment guarantee of free speech in ruling that calling someone a "sleaze bag" who "slimed up from the bayou" does not constitute slander. When Football Coach Darrel ("Mouse") Davis used those words to describe Sports Agent J. Harrison Henderson III, he was free to express his opinion, according to Judge Jim Carrigan. The judge dismissed a suit for at least $12 million in damages that Henderson had filed against Davis and two newspapers that printed the remark...
...ballroom, even in Europe, can compete with Roseland. I don't think any ballroom in the whole globe can touch it. There is no competition in New York." On the bandstand the singer with the Don Glasser Orchestra announces, "And now, for Marge and Dominick, here is Blue Bayou...
...bayou country, the intrusion of salt water from the Gulf has been aided by miles of canals and pipeline rights-of-way dredged by oil and gas companies. Ordinarily, much of the salty water would be forced out of marsh areas by seasonal freshwater overflows from the nearby Mississippi. But the river now rarely floods, thanks to massive levees built along its banks to protect riverside land. The combination of saltwater intrusion and freshwater cutoff, says Houck, leaves the wetlands "caught in a double whammy. You couldn't do a better job of screwing up Louisiana if you planned...