Word: berthed
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...Crimson is playing its best basketball of the season and rolling over the competition like a freight train without brakes. With only seven regular season games remaining, Harvard seems headed for a second consecutive Ivy League Championship and NCAA Tournament berth...
Following an impressive performance in the NCAA Tournament against nationally-ranked Vanderbilt, the Crimson had reason to expect success against Arizona, a Pac-10 team which failed to gain an NCAA berth last year...
...first U.N. peacekeepers are dispatched to the Suez Canal: "As Secretary-General of the United Nations, [Dag] Hammarskjold holds a job whose very title carries overtones of impotence. Today, however, what was originally conceived of as the world's top civil-service berth shows promise of developing into an executive post of potentially immense power. Partly, this is a matter of impersonal historic forces--among them the tendency of a frightened legislature to yearn for a strong executive; partly, it reflects a U.S. decision to put its weight behind (or to lean against) the U.N. But partly, the expansion...
Look also for NCAA potential in junior Jim Butera, who nearly missed a tournament berth last year and was a top-10 finisher at 118 pounds in the EIWAs...
Harvard, ranked seventh in the country, clinched an automatic berth in the 32-team tournament by winning the Ivy League title...