Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...telling commentary on the debates that past match-ups have hinged on the trivial, the superficial, or the spectacular if momentary mental breakdown. And because of all the attention focused on the Great Debates, these factors are magnified beyond any reasonable proportion...
...Crimson, fresh off its first road win in two years, outplayed Smith for most of the game. The squad led by 12 points at the half and, aside from a brief breakdown on defense midway thrugh the second period, easily coasted to triumph...
...pretty good shot selection most of the game," Delaney Smith said of her squad's 34 percent field goal efficiency (28 percent in the second half). "It seemed like we would dominate and then we just went really cold. Their [comeback] was in no way due to a breakdown in defense but just cold shooting on our part," she added...
...given about why Alice might be holding on to both her bumbling fools comes from her interplay with her two women friends. Cynthia (Charlotte de Turckheim), whose job seems to amount to hosing down naked men in a Trouville hospital, marries a weather forecaster who has a nervous breakdown during the wedding ceremony and returns to his ex-wife shortly afterwards. Solange (Dominique Lavanant), a flautist in a not-ready-for-prime-time orchestra, always seems to be stuck in sad love triangles or with married men and constantly worries that she will end up an old maid while...
...last time a special teams breakdown allowed a Harvard opponent to return a kickoff for a touchdown--when Penn's Rich Comizio gave the Quaker's decisive lead last year--the Crimson rolled over and played dead. Harvard lost to Penn, 38-7, and then lost an upset to Yale the following week...