Word: berthing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because the weekend sweep by the clubs Harvard had swept on the road five weeks earlier left the Crimson two-and-a-half games behind liague-leading Penn (8-1 Ivy) and left the Crimson's dreams of a first-ever Ivy crown and a second-ever NCAA tournament berth all but decked by a one-two punch...
...berth almost the entire day, getting up only to run to the bathroom. But Nikolai Molyakov, deputy chief of the Department of International Organizations, taunted me. The best medicine for seasickness was to toss down "200 grams" of vodka, he said, urging me to accompany him to the bar. His suggestion made me feel even sicker, but I thought perhaps it would be more pleasant to die in the bar than on my bunk...
...only two Ivy teams never to win a men's basketball crown, the Crimson is, at least, a safe bet to garner an NIT postseason bid, if not an NCAA berth...
...just inviting accident. For the most part, they tend to run red lights and ride down one-way streets the wrong way," he says, adding that drivers' legitimate expectations for cyclists to "pull some ridiculous stunt" further compounds the problem. "They'll tend to either give you a wide berth, speed up past you or just honk their horns," he says...
...English visitors, Adela Quested and Mrs. Moore, chuffs and hoots across the plains. They are on their way to visit the latter's son in Chandrapore, where he serves the British raj as city magistrate. Adela, plain but secretly a spirited young woman, contemplates marrying him. But in her berth she dreams vaguely of adventure, of discovering what she likes to call "the real India." Outside, the real India broods enigmatically, and we see the train from another of the subcontinent's perspectives, as a tiny toy almost lost at its feet. In the shadowy foreground of these shots loom...