Word: berthed
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This, one might have thought, would have been enough to make Copley grab a berth on the next ship to London. He did nothing of the sort. At 28 he was already the one big fish in Boston's tiny cultural pond. In London he would have been a sprat in a sea of talent. So he hung back for nine more years, until 1774, and left only when the riots and disturbances that presaged the American Revolution threatened to ruin his market...
...place in which the wild card has made a difference is Seattle. After the All-Star break, the Mariners acquired pitcher Andy Benes and outfielder Vince Coleman in the hope that they would help secure the wild-card berth. Winning the A.L. West seemed out of the question, because as late as Aug. 9, the Angels led the division by 11 games. But then California did a free fall, and suddenly the Mariners found themselves in the hunt for first. The turnstiles in the Kingdome haven't exactly been smoking, but last week a measure to raise Seattle's sales...
...once, please root for the Mariners--they need your help. All that Seattle has ever seen is an AFC Championship berth, one NBA Championship decades ago, and a co-national champion college football team...
While I have focused on participatory sports, I did not mean to minimize the accomplishments of Harvard varsity sports. In 1994-1995, women's lightweight crew was crowned national champion for the third time in five years, the women's soccer team gained its first NCAA berth in a decade, the women's softball team earned its first-ever ECAC post-season berth and the women's basketball team came within a final-game loss of being the first women's Ivy League team to play in the NCAA Tournament...
...first three games of the season are any indication, the Harvard men's soccer team seems intent on proving that last year's Ivy League title and NCAA berth were no joke...