Word: bottoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...signaled preliminarily for Columbia," Cloe said. "But I talked to one of the other officials who saw the whole play. It was unfortunate that it was reported incorrectly. Columbia never had the ball. When we got to the bottom of the pile, the Brown player...
...title on the line for only the fourth, the Crimson warriors came away with a 14-10 victory. Led by junior halfback Tony Hinz, who scored both Harvard touchdowns, and a fearsome defensive front seven, the Crimson--picked by most pre-season pundits to finish near the bottom of the Ancient Eight--captured its first Ivy crown since 1983 and its first outright title since...
...final period saw both teams checking fiercely and sending bodies flying all over the rink. When C.J. Young was caught at the bottom of a pileup by the Army net, Army's Mark Hill sent Young's helmet flying off his head...
...chosen to bestride the history books, yet his destiny was to be that of a man endlessly free-falling through most of this century's horror. But it must have been a relief for him to come to rest as a footnote, a curiosity, at the bottom of a rarely opened page. Perhaps having accepted this fate, he would have savored another irony: that he would earn posthumous eminence as the focus of a big-budget movie -- one conceived and financed by Westerners. Once again Pu Yi is the shadow king manipulated by outsiders. And what beautiful shadows they make...
William Bennett, the declamatory Secretary of Education, has opened his bomb bay over Chicago. During a visit he branded the school system America's worst, with a dropout rate of 45% and achievement scores for many schools in the bottom 1% nationwide. Chicago officials were not pleased. After all, surveys have put New York City's and Detroit's dropout rates higher. Chicago Mayor Harold Washington angrily countercharged that Ronald Reagan "has literally dismantled public education in this country." Last week, after saying "the mayor doesn't know what the hell he is talking about," Bennett went to tiny...