Word: beating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first race of the evening, the 400 medley relay, provided the blue print for the rest of the meet. Four Harvard teams beat the top Bruin team, with the Crimson foursome of Don Kidd, Dave Mainen, Paul Watson and Albert Wolf winning the race and setting a new meet record with a time...
...first period was dominated by Roy and center Mike Vukonich, playing his third game since switching from wing. Roy kept the Big Green at bay, kicking, batting and sticking away shot after shot. And Vukonich beat Dartmouth goaltender Steve Laurin twice to give the Crimson a lead it wouldn't relinquish...
...sort who leaves his ego at the door. He fits his approach to his subject. With the brusque, no-nonsense Iacocca, he conducted interviews in offices and conference rooms, never sharing a meal with him. With O'Neill, he took drives around Cape Cod in the former Speaker's beat-up Chrysler and listened to endless anecdotes over tuna sandwiches. "I worried that these were only a wall of stories," he says. "I came to realize that Tip's opinions were expressed through his stories." He arrived at the White House carrying a bag of Mrs. Fields chocolate chip cookies...
...father of complacency. "When it's over, maybe I'll sit - down and say, 'Gee, we did something pretty terrific,' " he says. "But it's just not my nature." "He doesn't really accept compliments," says his son Kevin, a student at Notre Dame law school. When Notre Dame beat Pittsburgh 45-7 in October, Kevin called to congratulate him. What did Dad say in reply? "Kevin, did you see that S.M.U...
...intensity, and hence lose in an upset. Before the Pitt game, he assured reporters that Pitt was only slightly less dangerous than Rommel's Panzers. Yet at practice he was telling his players that Pitt was more like the army of Grenada and that he expected the Irish to beat the bejabbers out of them. When this inconsistency is raised, Holtz is only momentarily at a loss. "We just point out the problems to the public and the press," he says. "We tell the players the problems and the solutions...