Word: bout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard opened its season on March 15, with a come from behind, 10-9, victory over 16th ranked MIT. The victory over the Engineers' strong club team dispelled more than a few doubts a bout the Crimson...
According to Dalton's supporters, Bok's failure to investigate her charges of discrimination--in order to give an entirely fresh look at the facts of the case--means that her three-year bout for tenure will continue to haunt the school...
Most Original Band: Clarkson. The Knight band comes with electric guitarist. How 'bout a little Hendrix to start the game...
Meanwhile the competition has been reaching dizzying new speeds. In Sunday's race, 27 skaters broke Heiden's old record. After Jansen, the best U.S. hope for a medal had been Sprinter Nick Thometz. But following months of battling a low blood-platelet count and a recent bout of the flu, he finished eighth in the 500 and 18th in the 1,000. That race went to the Soviet Union's Nikolai Guliaev in 1:13.03. The silver went to East Germany's Jens-Uwe Mey, already winner of the 500 with a 36.45 record. Finally on Saturday...
...years ago, Hawking's voice had deteriorated to a labored moan that only his family and a few associates could understand; one of them always stood close by to interpret his words. Then, in 1985, after Hawking nearly suffocated during a bout with pneumonia, he was given a tracheostomy that enabled him to breathe through an opening in his throat and a tube inserted into his trachea. The operation saved his life but silenced his voice. Now he "speaks" only by using the slight voluntary movement left in his hands and fingers to operate his wheelchair's built-in computer...