Word: blowout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consolation round. Harvard ironically met B.C., only to lose again, 83-78. B.C., coming off a blowout loss to Purdue (82-54), outlasted the tired Harvard squad that had almost stunned Arizona State the night before. The bright spot against the Eagles was freshman Flemming, who pumped in 30 points for his finest performance to date in Crimson colors...
...socko conclusion that leaves customers eager to return next time. The International Fiscal Association spent $20,000 to hire Soprano Leontyne Price, Conductor Arthur Fiedler and the National Symphony Orchestra for the final evening's entertainment. The Hyatt Hotels Corp. offers ten "theme packages" for the concluding blowout, including Monte Carlo night, rodeo parties, an Arabian Nights banquet and a Tom Jones party, in which the ballroom is filled with trees, grass, live pigs, chickens, llamas and a tame tiger, while guests gnaw on turkey drumsticks and slurp wine out of goatskin bags. One group had an Arabian Nights party...
First, the vaunted Elis muscled past the Crimson defense for a pair of quick touchdowns. Then, with the threat of a pride-devastating blowout imminent, Crimson quarterback Larry Brown took it to the Eli defense, striking through the air to tie it up 14-all in the second, quarter...
When the reckoning hour finally came in this alleyfight of a pennant race--after 162 games and 8 2/3 innings, after the rise and the fall and the blowout and the desperation eight-game win streak by the Red Sox--the only tangible difference between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox was the 90-foot long stretch of land down the third-base line that blocked Rick Burleson's way to homeplate...
They shouldn't all be this easy for Yale, and if they are, The Game might very well be The Blowout...