Word: causeway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BOSTON--Boston Garden has never been kind to the Harvard mens' hockey team. But, thankfully for the Crimson, the Causeway Street institution has been downright mean to Boston College...
...mainland, Yamashita's bicycle-riding invaders needed only 70 days to pedal and hack their way 600 miles down the Malayan peninsula. All through the night of Jan. 31, British troops marched out of Malaya and across the 1,100- ft.-long causeway to the island fortress of Singapore. The last 90 to leave were Argyll Scots marching to their bagpipers skirling Hielan' ((Highland)) Laddie. The British then blew a 70-ft. gap in the causeway -- but the inrushing waters proved to be only 4 ft. deep at low tide...
...which has mainly been a guerrilla conflict, suddenly turned into an even more bloody set-piece struggle. Tamil fighters, known as Tigers, dropped their usual tactics of ambush and evasion to launch a 3,000-strong force against a government base controlling Elephant Pass, a narrow, one-mile causeway, surrounded by marsh, beaches and sand dunes, that connects the mainland with the Tigers' heartland, the Jaffna Peninsula...
Harvard's opponent for the 8 p.m. matchup is Clarkson, which had to make the seven-hour trip from New York's North Country to reach Causeway Street. On the other hand, Crimson skaters merely had to hop on the M.B.T.A.'s Green Line...
Harvard's fortunes have been very poor at the Causeway Street rink recently. The Crimson fell twice this season, 8-2 to Boston University and 5-0 to Northeastern, at the Garden during the Beanpot...